Wetang’ula urges strong Somalia action

Folks,

We herewith make an appeal to the International Community, the United Nations and Leaders of the World Governments to step in and provide Security and some form of management at the Referendum.

We must not take previous appeals by the Police boss Mr. Iteere about the Somali Action by the Al-Qaeda and the Al-Shabaab making an attack to Kenya during the Referendum. I am worried about true reason of the African Union meeting in Kampala…..I think this has pre-empted worse happenings about to take place at Referendum in a surprise pre-planned attacks to stop Referendum from taking place.

There are already Pop-Ups of developments interested parties, some are signing Memorandum of Understanding with African Union Leadership in Kampala to continue to CORRUPT Kenya and Africa with more sinister hidden agendas, those who have recently joined the Mafia Cartels, and who want to have situation in Kenya and those of Africa remain the way they are, so they continue to corrupt and kill African poor with impunity while they RAPE AFRICA and continue to enjoy the BLOOD MONEY for their business from Africa, denying Kenya and Africa responsible livelihood. This matter is not small, and it is the reason I am calling on the International Community Intervention…….Kenya must be saved now, or else, we see an extended WAR ERRUPTING AND SPILLING OVER BEYOND THE BOUNDARIES OF KENYA DURING THE REFERENDUM……This is what Moi swore along with Ruto…….The interest has been expanded…….PLEASE HEAR ME AND ACT…..

Here and there, we see the World Bank having a strong hand in the control and in contributing to Africa’s failure or the reason why Africa has remained in POVERTY STAGNATION even with the huge flow of funding to Kenya/Africa. There are contradiction and confusion created in the expansion of African Union extensions and expansion, when in actual sense they are producing nothing or improving Africa, but are believed to be the main cause or PROBLEM in Kenya/Africa. They could be building their castles to own Corporate Business Citizenship in Africa causing Taxpayers in Africa to loose Million in poverty projects initiatives that never existed or rather are for reporting as rubber stamp, through the Government facilities that are not promising.

These huge funding need to be investigated and audited because we believe there are issues of laxity in monitoring, disbursements, accountability and transparency and which we suspect, have gone and lost to individual pockets with rampant diversion of funds finding their ways elsewhere, at which in many cases, we believe are part and parcel of reasons why there are continued arms conflicts in Africa, with the pretense that they are working towards REMOVING POVERTY in AFRICA and are now preparing ways and means to improve AGRICULTURE PRODUCTION…….Why now, why cant they let Kenya finish with their REFERENDUM……..why would Wetangula go to African Union meeting, only to address problem of SOMALI/Al-Qaeda/Al-Shabaab invasion, urges strong Somali Action. Why did he not announce it while in Kenya before he left for the AU meeting in Kampala……only after days when Libya’s President Gaddafi was visiting shortly few days ago in Uganda, a bomb went off (suspected to be Al-Qaeda/Al-Shabaab) killing many people in Uganda. What message are we getting?

The African Union (AU) is another rip-off useless Mission funded by the World Bank. Whose interest is this group of leaders serving? At this point, Kenya needed funding from the World Bank to sponsor the Referendum, not some good-for-nothing meeting in Uganda. That meeting is not for the interest of Africa’s Development, but some Man-Eat-Man Society network of some powerful Mafia Connections that has caused Africa to fall into its death bed of corruption and impunity? This is a High Tech Mafia Conspiracy of the 21st Century, and it is meant to colonize and own Africa into an International network Corporate of Mafia Business Citizens, who will utilize manpower services of poor Africans as cheap laborer resource from the makeshift camps where some have already been driven.

Majority African poor in Africa, live in a dejected silent misery, struggling to survive by eating wild plants and animals to kill the day. Most in the Urban are living without water or electricity for months, and their future are being muddled and frustrated at every stage, in the hands of selfish and irresponsible Mafia Cartels of the most powerful of the World……..Connect the dots from the attachment information …..and see how much Kenya and Africa are in serious trouble in the hands of these Religious Leadership with the network of Moi with other Mafia Cartels who are now hiding under “YES”, but will vote otherwise during the Referendum……..The SUBMARINE Youth are busy shaping the whole Region for “NO” to surprise the “YES” through Government management and supervisory facilities.

The project of Referendum and Constitution making is a Public/Government program project which is a PROCESS of DEMOCRATIZATION, that which should be supported by all, and so, Public Servants MUST support the process of Referendum……unfortunately, Moi factors are in full force controlling the Government machinery through the back door, that is the reason why former President Moi have been given National Police security of 10,000 police battalion, who were employed by Moi himself, and who are still in full coordination with Moi Security Guards who are still faithful to former President Moi. This means, Moi is the one ruling Kenya and powers have been taken back to him to protect him…..The reason why is commander in chief Mr. Ruto is bragging for the win…..and The Reason Why, Kiplagat is in full control of the Electoral Commission Team. Everything else what you see is window curtain, Moi is the one in power controlling all else in Kenya…….If the International Community and the United Nations will not step in to help take control and shape for PEACE and SECURITY in Kenya now as Referendum approaches, Things will Fall-Apart, and it is for this reason why the African Union meeting took place in Kampala Uganda……Libyan Muamar Gaddafi was already there last week and the Kissing was performed between Museveni and Gaddafi……that is a big sign. ……The controversial Indian Business man Patni was also there……..This spells DOOM for Kenya…….There are many powerful hands that which have been connected…….CONNECT THE DOTS FROM THE ATTACHMENTS…..

African poor are slowly being stripped off their dignity, value, honor and virtue against their wishes by organized and connected Mafia Cartels, to destruction and extinct. The little these Africans have and own, are being systematically and strategically taken away from them by the same Internationally connected manipulators of the likes of the Internationally connected Christian Religious Groups, UN, AU, The World Bank Staff (Personnel) with their Agents from the Corrupt Government system of Africa, working with foreign NGOs, Small Foreign Business groups, alongside institutionalized establishments of African Governments leaders and Universities such like that of Moi University under the protectorate of former President Moi are connected to Foundations with Special Interests Individuals and Personalities, taking peoples land and facilities and swindling Taxpayers monies, Resources and other special valuables amounting to tons of financial capacity and reducing Africa people to shell structures of humankind of no value including taking away their traditional lands and dear lives to pave way for these Mafia Cartels to do business.

Many Africans who survive life threatening ordeals of man-made Civil Wars specifically at election times or when they are about to achieve status of INDEPENDENCE, some CRUDE mission are being hatched in a spar-of-moment to disrupt and block African struggle for good governance process, at which they cook up some acts of mass killings to cause scare, confusion and destruction of peace. At this stage, families are scattered and the domestic nuclear fabric of a family is completely shattered and destroyed…… disengaging the unity of a community from existing. This is the top gear plan for this mafia cartel, to finally have full ownership and control of Africa.

Many Youth, after they complete their education or University, find no other means of sustainability and to engage and utilize their educational achievements to expand their knowledge gained for sustainable Development prospects undertaking, find themselves vulnerable, frustrated and fall off or get absorbed by being hired in the Mafia NGOs, or are employed into such institutions that do not cause Africa to grow but collapse. They are in actual sense the mercenaries of the Mafia Cartels, who assist in the Invasion and theft of Africa’s Resources, except, they jointly perform acts of injustices in partnership with the thugs of the Mafia Cartel Networks to achieve an irresponsible mission objectives to destroy Africa. These Youths have been put in an awkward state-of-affair, that which is not of their choice, but have to oblige, to carry the Mission of the Mafia network, which conspicuously are destroying fundamental nuclear fabric of a family, destroying human lives, nature and the global environment. This is why the Mafia Cartels network are getting stronger by day, sinking deeper and are taking the general public unaware by storm. ……This MUST stop…..

These activities by the Mafia Cartels, are a Violation of Human Rights. Those engaged in any form, who are believed to have facilitated the network financially or otherwise, are jointly committing violation of Human Rights and Abuse.

The Obama Administration is after PEACE. He is offering a True Package for REFORM to the People of Africa. He is interested in engaging the People of Africa into a responsible Partnership Development Agenda, where Africa is able to use their Resources and potentials to Productively and Sustainably improve lifestyle, get out of POVERTY, and strategically, compete within the challenges of the Global Market and so to prosper and progress in Economic strength and in Political capacity, and where the Civil Society and the Local Community are placed in Development gainful Projects for sustainability.

He wants to see Real and True justice taking place with good responsible governance where there are opportunity and fair distribution of resources without discrimination are observed. Where all people are given a chance to put in play their expertise knowledge, skills and talents in a resourceful favorable returns that which eventually will build their community for growth and progress……..and where, in partnership for Development, the whole world will Exchange in Trade and Socialize amicably at PEACE with each other in a co-existence peaceful without fear of invasion or war, and where LOVE, CARING and UNITY transcends all else. His style of Organization will give rise to a balanced lifestyle which will eventually provide for the PEACE and SECURITY we all strive for, and is that which will result in healthy living.

It is unfortunate, there are people who are planning surprises to throw Kenya into a state of confusion at the REFERENDUM DAY. Though the Revolution of Change which is about to take place will resolve many problems of the Youth and Women. It will transform lives and many people will be engaged in a sustainable development agenda. The voting of “YES” at the Referendum is significant to a Success Story where:

1) Kenyans Public will realize and gain the benefits of Obama Administration Foreign Policy Partnership for Development

2) There will be an increase of Job Opportunity to both in Kenyan and the US as well as the Global Region, in which case, Kenya will have a Global Market Place exposure for Business and Trade

3) There will be a booster of Social and Cultural Diversity Heritage and a promotion for Tourism

4) It will harmonize Respect and honor between African Nations and those of the International World

5) It will put Kenya and Africa on the spotlight of the Global Market Place

6) It will resolve and strengthen the PEACE ties in Africa

7) African value will be appreciated all over the world

8) Civil Society Package and the Local Community coordination for partnership development with the Government will be strengthened and bear fruits greatly

Africa and the world will eventually UNITE for a common purpose of interest, that which is of protecting and preserving the Universe under the environmental protection for a better future, which we all cannot do independently from each member of the world.

So, the New Constitution will provide Good Governance, SECURITY and True Justice. People will engage their Government to DELIVER according to people’s DEMANDS. Kenya/Africa will have an opportunity to NEGOTIATE their worth in the Global Market, where Kenya People’s interest will be taken into consideration. There will be notable factors of Responsibility and Delivery, Checks and Balances, Transparency and Accountability, Evaluation and Monitoring, Auditing and Reporting and information to the Public for satisfactory endorsement. Public Officials will be rated, assessed and evaluated. Health and Education will go along way in the effectiveness of the Democratization of good Governance with the establishment of timely set up of Infrastructures and the loopholes of the DIVERSION of FUNDS will be shut.

These are some of the reasons why VOTING “YES” at the REFERENDUM is promising setting up of a New Beginning of the New Constitution to be the LAW OF THE LAND for GOVERNANCE.

Sincerely,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

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Agenda 4 Commission. On Referendum – Click the link…..

standardgroupkenya | July 15, 2010

Kenyans have been warned that the referendum campaigns could drive the nation back to violence if politicians keep making utterances meant to divide the people. The warning came at a review of the referendum process attended by members of the agenda four commissions created after the violence that followed the 2007 election. Today’s meeting was told that the same kind of utterances that split the country in 2005 and 2007 were being used by the competing sides.

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Kibaki: Let’s answer the call of history and enact new constitution

President Kibaki during the interview with Sunday Nation at his Harambee House office.

President Kibaki during the interview with Sunday Nation at his Harambee House office.
By Murithi Mutiga mmutiga@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Saturday, July 24 2010 at 21:00

In Summary

* President discloses details of the ‘Yes’ campaign’s winning plan ahead of August 4 referendum

Striking a relaxed, confident, even light-hearted pose, President Kibaki used his first in-depth media interview to urge Kenyan voters to come to the right side of history and endorse the new constitution.

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“I have been overwhelmed by Kenyans’ reaction as we went around the country in recent weeks,” he said. “In the next few days, we will work hard to make sure that those opposing it over one or two little things change their minds and support us.”
Mr Kibaki addressed a broad range of issues, including a review of his first term, an assessment of his achievements and missteps and an appraisal of the challenges that lie ahead in the remaining years of his final term in office.
But the constitution was the main item on his agenda as he explained why he has been a robust advocate of the document in an aggressive style that has caught both friend and foe off balance.
“A new constitution is not about Mwai Kibaki,” he said. “By 2012, I will have done my bit for this great Republic of Kenya. The new constitution is about the future. When I read the (proposed) constitution, I am confident that it will take our country to that future that the Kenyan people envision. A future of great economic prosperity, greater social equity and political stability. We want a country at peace with itself and enjoying great respect among the family of nations.”
Mr Kibaki said the next few days would be focused on drumming up turnout and making sure the margin of victory for the ‘Yes’ side is convincing.
He said he had decided to adopt a more forceful approach to the constitutional debate because he views the enactment of a new body of laws as key to stability and progress.
In contrast to the old Kibaki who often spoke in general terms and was rarely drawn on specifics, the President displayed an intimate knowledge of the ‘Yes’ campaign strategy on Saturday.
He outlined the areas on which the team was focusing and said he was satisfied by the outcome of campaign rallies in Kisii on Friday where regional political heavyweight Simeon Nyachae made a strong pitch for a ‘Yes’ vote.
He said teams had been sent to Rift Valley Province and some parts of Meru North, where he said they had heard the terrain was “slightly hostile”.
He said: “We are very pleased by the way things are going. There is absolutely no doubt the people will vote ‘Yes’. What we are working on now is making sure the margin of victory is large.”
In many ways, the Kibaki that came across in the 10 a.m. interview at his surprisingly small Harambee House office is one that is familiar to many Kenyans.
He peppered his aides with jokes, defying their attempts to make him strike a particular pose for pictures.
“Wachana na hiyo mambo yako,” he said when asked to button up his coat before the photo was taken. “Hakuna haja ya hiyo. Sisi watu wa zamani hatufungi koti. Hiyo ni mambo ya siku hizi.” (We older people don’t button up our coats; that is a recent fad).
Mr Kibaki appeared more energetic and sprightly than he did in the early years of his first term when he occasionally seemed uncertain and hesitant.
He was quick to answer all the questions posed to him and engaged in a frank examination of his first term, which was marked by strong economic growth but ended on a sour note after the General Election was followed by a prolonged period of violence. He offered an analysis of what led to the bloodshed and said lessons must be learnt to prevent a recurrence.
“The post-election crisis was a dark blot in our nation’s history. It was disheartening to see Kenyans who had lived side by side for decades being subjected to horrendous acts in what shall always be a tragic chapter in Kenya’s history. I must say that it was unfortunate and highly regrettable that Kenyans were subjected to one of the longest campaign periods in our history ahead of the 2007 elections.
“You will recall that soon after the 2005 referendum, the country was placed in a campaign mode. The long campaigns became extremely divisive and balkanising. One of my wishes is that Kenya can actually legislate on how long campaign periods should be and proper mechanisms be put in place to deal with those who flout this.
“Long campaigns get personal, but shorter campaigns enable the electorate and candidates to engage in deeper and meaningful debate. We lost over one thousand lives. All those were precious lives of Kenyan men and women.”
Mr Kibaki was more upbeat while discussing the achievements in his first term. He said the infrastructure projects that had been implemented would lead to greater economic growth in future.
“A growing economy has made it possible for government to collect more taxes without raising the individual tax burden. This has enabled us to have money to finance the most ambitious infrastructure programme in our nation’s history. But, as a former educationist, I must say that smiling children enjoying our free primary education gives me an extra sense of pride. We must, however, grow the economy further so as to absorb the many young people in the job market and many more who are joining the market every year.”

Mr Kibaki characterised his relationship with coalition partners Raila Odinga and Kalonzo Musyoka as a good one, saying initial challenges were to be expected considering how closely contested the last election was.
He said the reform process was on track and promised further reforms of the Judiciary and electoral system.
He said funds would be channelled to institution-building to tackle problems such as the huge backlog of cases in the courts once the new constitution is in place. Some of the changes would be the introduction of small claims courts and traffic courts that can swiftly deal with petty cases.
“The police reforms are also under way with implementation of the Ransley Report. In my 2002 election campaigns I promised better remuneration for the police. We intend to fulfil this promise, and the process is under way,” he said.
His views of the current round of the review yielded a dual answer on whether he sees its successful conclusion as representing potentially the most enduring achievement of his time in office.
He said the constitution is too important to be linked to a man’s legacy, although he conceded that he would be overjoyed to sign into law a new constitutional order.
“I will be happy and proud if Kenyans give it their full support. I am confident that history will judge us well as the people who enacted a new constitution.”
Mr Kibaki struck a statesmanlike pose while discussing the post-referendum period. He urged both sides not to overreact and warned against triumphalism. But he said the losing team would have the biggest challenge in avoiding strife.
“It is human nature. Those who feel the referendum has not gone the way they wanted will obviously need some time to cool down. But ultimately, we must move on as one nation,” he said, while urging Kenyans to focus on nation-building rather than politics in the two years before the next elections.
“We must also entrench a mind-set that an electoral contest has winners and losers. Winners must learn to embrace victory with humility, while losers should accept defeat honourably, that way democracy becomes entrenched.”
Mr Kibaki ended the interview with a trademark response to the final question. Why hadn’t he granted media interviews before?
“We have never refused. Why didn’t you ask before?” he said, adding “seeking publicity has never been my style.”
Wetang’ula urges strong Somalia action

Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang’ula has urged the African Union to take strong action against Somalia in the wake of the Kampala bombings July 23, 2010. Photo/FILE

Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang’ula has urged the African Union to take strong action against Somalia in the wake of the Kampala bombings July 23, 2010. Photo/FILE
By NATION Reporter
Posted Saturday, July 24 2010 at 11:50

The African Union should take strong action against Somalia following the bombings in Kampala, Uganda, Foreign Affairs minister Moses Wetang’ula has said.

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Speaking during the opening of the Executive Council of the African Union Friday in Kampala, Mr Wetang’ula called for strengthening the AU military operation in Somalia, AMISOM, from “peacekeeping to peace-making.”

Specifically, he called for the AU to strengthen the East African Standby Brigade, or EASBRIC, so that it might better deal with the Somalia security threat.

He further expressed condolences to the people and government of Uganda, where two separate bombs killed nearly 100 people as they watched the World Cup finals.

The attack, Mr Wetangula said, was worrisome because it represented a departure from attacks directed toward western interests and represented a “new and worrying” threat of violence by Africans on Africans.

Although most of the victims in the Dar es Salaam and Nairobi bombings were African, he pointed out that these Africans had unfortunately suffered from anger that was primarily directed at Americans.
Mr Wetang’ula also met with an unnamed South African foreign affairs official to call for South Africa to ramp up a response to the regional security threat that Somali pirates pose to trade in the Gulf of Aden.

The official, however, urged the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) to determine a proper Somalia policy.

As regards piracy, South Africa promised to engage in the area of sharing intelligence.

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HIS EXCELLENCY DR. BINGU WA MUTHARIKA, PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF MALAWI
CHAIRPERSON OF THE AFRICAN UNION

News

16-18 July- FOURTH AU PRE-SUMMIT ON GENDER , KAMPALA, UGANDA

-CONCEPT NOTE
-DRAFT WORK PROGRAMME

*17 – 19 JULY, 2010- AFRICAN YOUTH FORUM (AYF), UGANDA

The Government of the Republic of Uganda will host an African Youth Forum alongside the 15th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in July 2010.

The Forum will be held under the theme “Maternal, Infant and Child Health: African Youth Call for Action”; and will take place from 17th – 19th July 2010 at Botanical Beach Hotel-Entebbe, on the Shores of the Mighty Lake Victoria
– AIDE MEMOIRE
-AYF-KAMPALA 2010, PARTICIPANT INFORMATION FORM
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*22-23 July, 2010THE AFRICAN PRIVATE SECTOR FORUM, Munyonyo Commonwealth Resort, Kampala, Uganda,
Theme:“Creating new business opportunities in the aftermath of the global economic and financial crisis”
– AIDE MEMOIRE
– Draft Agenda

*24 JULY 2010- THE CAHOSCC MEETING KAMPALA, UGANDA (Commonwealth Resort Munyonyo)
– PROGRAMME AND AGENDA

*24 JULY 2010-LAUNCH OF PIDA, KAMPALA, UGANDA
– PROGRAMME OF THE CEREMONY
– MEDIA ADVISORY

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Press Release

* “MAKE PEACE HAPPEN: PREVENT VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN AND GIRLS”
Addis Ababa, 19 July 2010 – In the framework of the Year of Peace and Security (YoPS) in Africa, the African Union (AU) will launch a photo exhibition during its 15th AU Summit to be held in Kampala, Uganda, from 19th to 27th July 2010 under the theme “Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa”. As part of the efforts deployed to meet the YoPS objectives, the AU intends to raise the issue of Women and Children in Armed conflicts on its agenda. Press Release (EN)
* STRENGTHENING THE ROLE OF THE AFRICAN UNION IN PREVENTING, MANAGING AND RESOLVING CONFLICT
Addis Ababa, 19 July 2010 – On the margins of the 15th African Union (AU) Summit, to be held from 19 to 27 July 2010 in Kampala, Uganda, under the theme “Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa”, the Panel of the Wise of the AU will launch its report on “Election-related disputes and political Violence: Strengthening the role of the African Union in preventing, managing and resolving conflict”. Press Release (EN)
* Addis Ababa, 19 July 2010 – During the 15th AU Summit to be held from 19 to 27 July 2010 in Kampala, Uganda, under the theme “Maternal, Infant and Child Health and Development in Africa” a recording studio will be made available for the use of broadcast journalists. MEDIA ANNOUNCEMENT (EN)

* 22-23 July 2010 – NEPAD-CAADP MEDIA SENSITISATION WORKSHOP, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
– CONCEPT NOTE
– PROGRAMME

– BANKS, POLICYMAKERS AND RESEARCHERS CALL FOR INCREASED ACCESS TO FINANCES FOR AFRICAN FARMERS
Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 21st July 2010 – “We should all commit ourselves to mobilising the resources that are required in order for us to implement the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP). We need to look very carefully at how we can increase national budgetary and private sector support for our farmers”, said Dr. Laurent Sedogo, Minister of Agriculture, Water Resources and Fisheries for Burkina Faso at the start of the second annual CAADP Day. Press Release

* VISIT OF EU COMMISSIONER FOR INTERNAL MARKETS AND SERVICES TO THE AFRICAN UNION
Addis Ababa, 19 July 2010 – The Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), Mr. Erastus Mwencha and Mrs Elisabeth Tankeu, African Union Commissioner for Trade and Industry, today, Friday 16 July 2010, received in audience Mr Michel Barnier, European Union (EU) Commissioner for Internal Markets and Services,who is on an official visit to the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Press Release
* 17 July 2010 – First Meeting of the Sudan Consultative Forum, Khartou, Sudan
The Sudan Consultative Forum established by the meeting that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on 8 May 2010, held its first meeting in Khartoum on 17 July 2010. The meeting was co-chaired by the AU Commissioner for Peace and Security, Ambassador Ramtane Lamamra, and the UN Under-Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations, Mr. Alain Le Roy. The purpose of the Consultative Forum is to provide coordinated international support to the ongoing processes within Sudan, namely: democratic transformation of the country; the implementation of the remaining provisions of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA); and the search for an inclusive global political agreement to promote lasting peace, justice and reconciliation in Darfur. Press Release

* 16 July 2010 – Première réunion du Conseil consultatif de l’Année de la paix et la sécurité en Afrique, Abéba, Ethiopie
– AFRICAN UNION COMMISSION APPOINTS ADVISORY COUNCIL AND PEACE AMBASSADORS TO PUSH FOR PEACE IN AFRICA
Advisory Council and Peace Ambassadors drawn from multiple sectors and multiple regions
Appointees declare they are ready to make peace happen
AU utilising multi-stakeholder approach towards peace and security in Africa
Addis Ababa, 16 July 2010: The Commission of the African Union (AU) today announced the appointment of 12 Advisory Council members and 14 Peace Ambassadors to support the implementation of the 2010 Year of Peace and Security programme. The announcement was made during the inaugural meeting of the Year of Peace and Security Advisory Council Members and Peace Ambassadors held at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. The 26 are prominent Africans drawn from various sectors of society: political, business, sports, arts, culture and music. Press Release

Mot d’ouverture du Président de la Commission Première réunion du Conseil consultatif de l’Année de la paix et la sécurité en Afrique Addis-Abéba, le 16 juillet 2010
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Addis Ababa, 16 July 2010: The Commission of the African Union (AU) today announced the appointment of 12 Advisory Council members and 14 Peace Ambassadors to support the implementation of the 2010 Year of Peace and Security programme. The announcement was made during the inaugural meeting of the Year of Peace and Security Advisory Council Members and Peace Ambassadors held at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa. The 26 are prominent Africans drawn from various sectors of society: political, business, sports, arts, culture and music. Press Release

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Kibaki heads to Kampala for AU summit

By Kibaki heads to Kampala for AU summit
Posted Saturday, July 24 2010 at 17:08

President Kibaki has left the country for Kampala, Uganda to attend the 15th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union (AU) Heads of State and Governments.

The theme of the summit, Maternal, Infant and Child health and Development in Africa, is in line with the UN Millennium Development Goals, which the 53 AU member states including Kenya aspire to achieve.

The plane carrying the President and his delegation departed Jomo Kenyatta International Airport shortly before 4.00 p.m.

The President was seen off at the airport by Chief of General Staff Gen Jeremiah Kianga and Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere among other senior government officials.

Hell breaks loose in Government

Updated 23 hr(s) 52 min(s) ago
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Five independent commissions overseeing the implementation of long-term reform agenda and prevention of recurrence of violence are up in arms against the State.
Though they are tasked with the delivery of the Agenda 4 programmes, in whose name President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have deployed top Civil Servants to campaign for ‘Yes’, the commissions have ruled the two principals “out of order”.
They have also openly disagreed with the President’s act of dishing out districts at ‘Yes’ rallies, and the PM’s green light to PSs to campaign for the Proposed Constitution . This week Raila defended his action thus: “PSs are employees of Government. Why should you deny another Kenyan the right to deliver a new constitution? They are Kenyans just like others.”
They also took exception to hate speeches at political rallies, and even attempts to disrupt some of the meetings.
The groups that spoke under one roof are the Interim Independent Electoral Commission (IIEC), the Committee of Experts (CoE), National Cohesion and Integration Commission (NCIC), Interim Independent Boundaries Review Commission (IIBRC), and Truth Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC). Their heads addressed a press conference at CoE offices at Delta House, Nairobi. They issued a joint statement in which they expressed displeasure at how the Government was conducting the campaign for the proposed laws and said creation of districts could be seen as a way of influencing voters.
Commissions chairmen: From left, Bethwell Kiplagat, Nzamba Kitonga, Isaak Hassan, Andrew Ligale and Mzalendo Kibunjia at Delta House in Nairobi when they condemned the Government for using State resources to campaign for the Proposed Constitution, Thursday. [PHOTO: Collins Kweyu]
The chairman of IIEC, which is the arbiter of the referendum race, Ahmed Isaack, set the tempo of the commissions’ joint news conference when he said: “Civil Servants should be excluded from campaigns. They are supposed to be neutral providers of services to all Kenyans.”
They swung into action a day after an attempt to disrupt former President Moi’s ‘No’ rally in Suswa, two days after Higher Education Minister William Ruto was met with hostility in Eastern Province, and a day after Kibaki created three districts and promised to put up a public university in North Eastern Province, while campaigning in Garissa.
Agenda 4 Items
Ruto, who is a member of The Kenya National Dialogue and Reconciliation team, which created the Agenda 4 Items, had accused these public bodies of engaging in a “conspiracy of silence” as the Government flouted the law.
The verdict of the independent commissions could also spark claims the Government is engaging in the same impunity the proposed laws are supposed to cure.
The action of the commissions could also reignite debate on whether Public Officers Ethics Act, which prohibits civil servants from engaging in politics, should have been disregarded for the referendum’s sake.
Yesterday, PSs who were ordered to go and campaign in their rural homes were still lobbying for ‘Yes’. One group of PSs in Western Province directly took on ‘No’ team claiming the ‘Reds’ were bribing voters.
“We are trying to engage top leaders in the ‘Yes’ camp to exclude Permanent Secretaries, PCs and DCs from the campaigns,” said Isaack.
IIBRC chairman Andrew Ligale also described as illegal the three new districts President Kibaki created saying, “We should be careful not to create new districts haphazardly.” He asked the State to give it a chance to “systematically” execute it work.
Mr Ligale argued the hundreds of districts created by Kibaki since he came to office were unaffordable to Kenyans. The five leaders asked ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ politicians to conduct their campaigns in a level- headed manner.
“The commissions have noted with great concern the inflammatory utterances by political leaders, the public confrontations, and the issuance of threats and other inciting rhetoric that have characterised the campaigns so far,” they said.
They condemned the attempt by ‘Yes’ supporters to disrupt a ‘No’ rally in Suswa on Wednesday. At one point they tried to stop Moi from landing near the venue.
But they also had a complaint against speakers at Suswa rally: “Leaders in both camps made very inflammatory statements at Suswa and we have begun investigating to see if they amount to hate speech,” said NCIC chairman Mzalendo Kibunjia.
A sad reminder
The leaders also condemned a confrontation that occurred in Kitui where ‘Yes’ youth injured ‘No’ supporters.
Water Minister Charity Ngilu’s driver and personal aide have been arrested over the incident, and police said they would charge them with assault.
“It is indeed unfortunate that some of the utterances from political leaders are a sad reminder that they may not have learnt any serious lessons from post-election violence that almost tore our country apart in 2007/2008,” read a joint statement.
CoE Chairman Nzamba Kitonga said Kenyans should be left to study the Proposed Constitution and freely make their own choices. “This is not a moment to play politics and engage in popularity contests among individuals, parties or religious groups. No Kenyan should therefore be threatened or intimidated on the basis of their individual decision to vote ‘Yes’ or ‘No’’’ he said.
Issack also assured Kenyans the referendum would not be rigged and said it was wrong for the ‘Reds’ to allege that there were plans to steal the vote. “We have all systems in place to ensure we have a free and fair vote and to claim the referendum would be rigged without producing proof is a serious allegation that may attract censure,” he warned.
TJRC Chairman Bethwel Kiplagat said the rigging claims might discourage some Kenyans from voting, and urged leaders to cease making such claims. “We want to still have a nation once the results of the referendum are announced. We don’t want to see people rejecting the outcome, and increasing risks of violence like after 2007 presidential election,” the team said.

Fear, tension in Kenya violence hotspots

Two children stand together as heavy rain falls at an IDP camp. Some residents are returning to the camps fearing violence during the referendum on August 4. Photo/FILE

Two children stand together as heavy rain falls at an IDP camp. Some residents are returning to the camps fearing violence during the referendum on August 4. Photo/FILE
By FRED MUKINDA, fmukinda@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Thursday, July 22 2010 at 21:30

In Summary
Police to be sent in three waves

1. Intelligence officers will be sent to areas of interest to gather information.
2. Additional officers will be sent to police stations in the areas of interest.
3. 39,000 more officers from prisons, Kenya Wildlife Service and Forest services to be gazetted and sent by the end of next week.

The government is rolling out a massive security operation to ensure peace before and after the referendum on August 4.

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In the Rift Valley where some residents have started moving back to camps for internally displaced persons, 15,000 officers will be deployed.
Tension is rising in the volatile province, following the now familiar pattern of intimidation and the distribution of leaflets threatening eviction.
The security forces have identified the areas most likely to experience violence, the so-called hotspots, and directed their resources there.
NSIS to gather intelligence
The officers deployed are from the General Service Unit, Regular and Administration police. Police said they will deploy their officers in three waves.
“The first stage is under way and involves deploying intelligence officers, from the regular and administration police forces,” said police spokesman Eric Kiraithe.
The National Security Intelligence Service will work with the other security agencies in gathering information, he said.
In the second stage, additional officers will be sent to police stations in the areas of interest. Such stations will also get additional vehicles.
By the end of next week, another 9,000 special police officers, drawn from Prisons, Kenya Wildlife and Forest services will be gazetted.
“No matter the outcome of the referendum, we expect a peaceful situation. Indicators are not pointing at a breach of peace, according to the intelligence reports so far,” he said.
A recent survey, conducted by Peace and Development Network Trust (PeaceNet Kenya) on behalf of National Cohesion Commission, identified 29 hotspots in different parts of the country.
They include Mathare and Kibera in Nairobi, Nakuru, Eldoret, Naivasha, Molo, Kuresoi, Kericho, Rongai, Bomet, Bureti, Sotik, Trans Nzoia, Burnt Forest, Londiani and Uasin Gishu in the Rift Valley.
Other areas include Mt Elgon, Lugari and Kakamega in Western Province, Borabu, Kuria, Mombasa, Muranga, Isiolo, Kisumu, Nyambene, Garissa and Wajir.
Conflict is likely to revolve around land, opposing views on the proposed constitution and militias in those areas. Internal Security minister George Saitoti has issued a stern warning against those threatening Kenyans.
“The government has a duty to protect all Kenyans. Security agencies will act decisively against those threatening Kenyans,” he said at a meeting in Ngong.
Prof Saitoti reassured Kenyans that they should not be worried about their safety, with only 12 days remaining to the referendum.

Additional reporting by Tom Matoke and Philemon Suter

Principals more trusted than clergy

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?President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga are the most trusted personalities for information about the Proposed Constitution, a recent report released by South Consulting says.
The media, however, top the list as the most trusted on information on the draft.
The trust bestowed on the two leaders and the media, surprisingly, surpassed that of religious leaders.
South Consulting, a partnership of professionals in socio-economic development sectors in the Eastern and Southern African region, releases quarterly reports on the Coalition Government’s performance .
‘Yes’ Will Carry The Day
The survey further shows that the ‘Yes’ team is likely to carry the day were the referendum to be conducted today.
According to a recent survey by Synovate, the media remains the most trusted institution in the country, with an approval rating of 57 per cent.
National Assembly Speaker Kenneth Marende is also highly rated at 35 per cent.
Parliament is trusted by only 17 per cent of Kenyans, while Prime Minister Raila Odinga is the second most trusted individual after Marende at 15 per cent.
An Infotrak poll released early this year said 31 per cent of Kenyans trust Raila while 11 per cent have faith in President Mwai Kibaki.
In another poll released by Synovate last year, Raila’s approval ratings stood at 31 per cent, Kibaki’s at 25 per cent while Kalonzo registered 14 per cent.
Unmasking Moi, the ‘No’ man of Kenya’s politics

A constant feature of Kenya’s protracted search for change has been retired President Moi’s opposition to change long before his swearing as president in 1978. Photo/FILE

A constant feature of Kenya’s protracted search for change has been retired President Moi’s opposition to change long before his swearing as president in 1978. Photo/FILE
By MURITHI MUTIGA
Posted Saturday, May 22 2010 at 21:00

In Summary

* Former president has remained vague about why he is opposed to the proposed constitution, but his contemporaries and history books paint the picture of a calculating politician who has consistently resisted change since the days of the struggle for independence
In every attempt to review the constitution over the last 20 years, one factor has remained unchanged: President Moi has been firmly in the No camp, thwarting any and every effort at every turn.

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In the last decade, Mr Moi virtually turned constitution making into the stuff of comedy. He presided over a series of rallies around the country in 1991, culminating in a gathering in Nakuru where he announced that the people had decided against multi-party politics.
Months later, he engineered an agreement in Parliament allowing the repeal of Section 2A of the Constitution, paving the way for the reintroduction of competitive politics.
Draft amendments
Two years later, Mr Moi gave the green light for Attorney-General Amos Wako to draft amendments to the Constitution, in response to mounting pressure on his government which had scraped back into office with only 36 per cent of the presidential vote.
Mr Wako proposed major changes that would have seen the introduction of a prime minister to help reduce the President’s powers, only for Mr Moi to quietly ditch the plan.
The most infamous intervention in the President’s efforts to ward off constitutional change came in 1995 when, in his New Year’s message, he asked the nation to celebrate what he called “the year of a new constitution.”
The statement was widely praised but, within months, it became clear Mr Moi had no intention of keeping his promise. The Kanu administration outflanked review activists two years later when a package of minimum reforms was mooted as a way to divide the Opposition, before one of Mr Moi’s last acts as President dealt a death blow to the review process under his presidency.
He dissolved Parliament while the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission was getting down to work in 2002, setting the stage for elections and postponing the review process.
Opinion is divided on why Mr Moi has shown such consistent opposition to constitutional reforms.
Mr Paul Muite who, as chairman of the pro-reform Law Society of Kenya in the 1990s, frequently differed with Mr Moi, says the former president is driven by self-interest.
“Mr Moi is part of a small clique of Kenyans that have benefited from a lopsided constitutional order since 1963. He is one of the biggest beneficiaries of irregular land allocations, according to the Ndung’u Commission and many others,” says Mr Muite.
“He plainly has an interest in maintaining the status quo. He has no desire to be held to account for the misuse of presidential power which led to loss of vast tracts of land which he and the Commissioner of Lands should have held in trust for the public but instead gave out to cronies as happened in the Mau water complex.”
Mr Moi has underlined his opposition to the review process in recent times by supporting the No camp in 2005 and in the current campaigns. But less well-known is that the former President’s conservative streak was on display as early as the 1950s, years before Kenya’s independence.
Cautious approach
Books written by his contemporaries at the time paint the picture of a man who wanted a cautious approach to the fight for independence and who some elements within the colonial system praised as “reasonable and moderate”.
In Mr Moi’s biography, The Making of an African Statesman, British writer Andrew Morton records veteran politician John Keen’s description of the early Moi: “He was never very impressive, not forceful. Moi certainly contributed but as an angry young man, I wanted someone who was far more aggressive. He wasn’t”.
Jaramogi Odinga, in Not Yet Uhuru, took a more critical view. He described African politicians such as Mr Moi and Mr Ronald Ngala, who advocated a non-confrontational approach to the Europeans, as “influenced by the missions, overawed by settler power and making a slow adjustment to political trends and the need to make independent judgements’’.
Mr Odinga was especially unhappy with a deal Kadu leaders, including Mr Moi, had cut with the colonial authorities which would have seen the British grant independence and hand over government to Kadu before the release of Jomo Kenyatta.
“Our hands are not tied at all,” Mr Moi is quoted by Mr Morton as saying after a meeting with Mr Kenyatta in Lodwar in 1961.
“The issue of release of Jomo Kenyatta is a separate issue from that of forming a government. We cannot take the two together.” Mr Odinga dismissed Mr Moi and other Kadu politicians as sellouts following this shortlived deal.

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During the pre-independence period, nothing divided the Kenyan political elite more than regionalism or majimbo, which many believe to be at the heart of Mr Moi’s consistent opposition to constitutional change.
According to Mr Morton, the smaller tribes viewed the independence movement as dominated by “urban nationalists” (mainly the Kikuyu and Luo elite) and feared uhuru would mean domination by the two.
In Kadu’s final campaign rally in 1961, Mr Moi told a 20,000-strong rally in Kimilili: “Her majesty’s government must sanction regionalism before handing over power to the Africans if there is to be peace in Kenya.”
This logic was not bought by one of the best brains in the pro-independence movement, Mr Tom Mboya. Mr Mboya was a firm unitarist who argued that the Kadu leaders demanding majimbo were under the influence of colonialists employing the age-old trick of divide and rule.
“Tribalism is one of the basic differences between Kanu and Kadu in Kenya and is perhaps the origin of these differences,” Mr Mboya wrote in his collection of essays, Freedom and After. “Some will say the smaller tribes must be protected from the bigger tribes. Such people refuse to accept the challenge of tribalism and, instead of fighting it, have given in and are actually promoting it. The difference between Kanu and Kadu over tribalism is this: Kanu concedes that tribal feelings exist but says they can be eliminated by wise leadership and positive action; Kadu is exaggerating these feelings to entrench tribalism … Apart from (Masinde) Muliro, very few Kadu politicians are convinced regionalists – the others are tribal leaders.”
Fourty years on, Mr Martin Shikuku, one of the most respected voices in the pro-reform process and one of the surviving politicians who attended the Lancaster House constitution review talks, offers this assessment of Mr Moi’s position.
“The current law is not the Lancaster constitution. It is what Mboya and Kenyatta mutilated to create a powerful presidency. The draft we are discussing is better than the present Constitution,” he told the Sunday Nation.
Mr Shikuku said he saw little merit in Mr Moi’s unstinting opposition to the review process.
“He is not consistent because he was chairman of Kadu and he believed then in decentralisation just as I did and still do. Unitary government has failed and everybody agrees with this. But while I would have wanted a more robust devolution, at least the proposed constitution creates room for some level of devolution which can be improved upon,” he said.
Negative majimboism
Mr Muite took a less charitable line, arguing that “Mr Moi has always agitated for negative majimboism. This is the type that demands that those who do not belong go away,” he said.
Mr Muite said Mr Moi was not alone in laying the ground for injustices that gave impetus to the campaign for a new constitution and called for examination of the Kenyatta government’s record.
Mr Kenyatta’s role in centralising the State is extensively discussed in another recent book that has addressed devolution and the evolution of laws in post-independence Kenya, Benjamin Kipkorir’s Descent from Cherang’any Hills: Memoirs of a Reluctant Academic.
Dr Kipkorir advocates what might be viewed as middle ground in the devolution debate, calling for 41 strong units of devolution structured around those which existed before independence and with greater powers than those created in the proposed constitution.
Successive presidents, he argues, have found the centralised system convenient and have been reluctant to change it.
“A fundamental cause of the stalemate of the review process can be traced to a constitutional adjustment of public structures and relationships that Jomo Kenyatta, the founding president, introduced to the governance of Kenya,” writes Kipkorir.
“Kenyatta sought to establish a relationship structure between local authorities and the central government that did not exist before independence but which his immediate successor, Moi, retained and amplified, and the present leader, Kibaki, while not saying so clearly, finds useful.”
Not forthright
Mr Moi has not been forthright in stating what type of draft constitution would satisfy him, only making vague references to the likelihood of “bloodshed” if the new law passes at the referendum.

Mr Muite says: “We should not focus on Moi alone. If we are to turn over a new leaf, we must examine Kenyatta’s record, especially with regard to land acquisition. We must hold Moi and Kibaki to account for their conduct. Future presidents will only uphold the rule of law if they see that those who came before them were held to account for their actions and submitted themselves to thorough and frank examination of their record.”

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Even though the Union of Kenya Civil Servants (UKCS) officials argued that they had discussed and sealed the matter with the Ministry of Public Service, the proposals were not factored in the national Budget recently read by Finance Minister Uhuru Kenyatta.
This is despite an assurance by Public Service Minister Dalmas Otieno that the State had recommended to the Treasury that Sh5.6 billion be set aside in the 2010/11 Budget for unionisable workers’ hardship remunerations.
“We were patient, waiting for the big announcement. Now, unless the issue is urgently sorted out, we will mobilise our members to down tools in protest,” said UKCS Secretary-General Tom Odege.
Addressing UKCS members at the Public Service club in Kisumu at the weekend, Mr Odege put the Government on notice for failing to address their plight at a time when most civil servants were feeling the “sheer heat of economic recession”.
“We agreed with Otieno last month and he did confirm that effective July 1, the hiked allowances would be paid to unionisable workers. But it only turned out to be a mirage when the budget was read,” said Odege.
The unionist said this was largely to be determined by the budgetary vote, which did not touch on their proposed budget, meaning the anticipated allowance increment might not be effected.
“We want to wait up to July 1, and see them fail, then we resort to industrial action after giving the State a 21-day notice. Civil servants must be paid well to deliver diligent services,” said Odege.
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The phone call that saved Kenyatta
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One bright morning 39 years ago, as founding President Jomo Kenyatta prepared to preside over a military function, his telephone rang.
The caller, a Kenya Air Force officer, warned him against attending a scheduled military sports parade at Lanet, Nakuru.
And it was that fateful call, from one Lieutenant-Colonel Murgor, that saved Kenyatta and halted a series of events that could have culminated in a military coup against the founding president’s eight-year-old government.
The soldiers had planned to either seize Kenyatta or shoot him as soon as he arrived at the function on March 31, 1971, as part of the coup plot that was initially planned for April 8 that year.
Kenyatta swiftly cancelled the trip and let loose his security machinery on the coup plotters, who included senior politicians, scholars, and military officers.
It was an attempted coup that is little-spoken about, and is overshadowed by the August 1, 1982 attempt against the Government of then President Moi and whose 28 years will be commemorated exactly a week from today.
The coup attempt led to the resignation of the then Chief of Defence Staff Joseph Ndolo, and the late Chief Justice Kitili Mwendwa, whose names were cited in the plot.
Events pieced together by The Standard On Saturday indicate a well-oiled plan that might have plunged the country into a bloodbath. While Kenyans shudder at the mention of the failed 1982 coup, they would be shocked to learn of the 1971 intricate plot that remains sparsely captured in political history.
According to a former officer who was privy to the planned coup, the renegade soldiers toyed with two plots against Kenyatta — either bomb State House using military jets, or shoot him during a military parade.
This view is, however, discounted by one of the coup plotters — a former jet fighter pilot Frederick Omondi, who says they were planning a bloodless coup. He said the initial plot was to arrest and detain President Kenyatta to pave way for a new government.
“The main organising team had no plans to kill Kenyatta. Maybe those who planned this were acting on separate instructions,” Omondi told the Standard On Saturday, last week.
He added: “We thought killing Kenyatta would have been counter-productive to our cause since we wanted support from all Kenyans. But it is possible some soldiers wanted to shoot him given the level of discontent in the military then.”
But Omondi confirmed that by the time the coup plot was exposed, they had settled on Kenyatta’s successor. They also had a list of Cabinet ministers.
Former Yatta MP Gideon Mutiso was widely cited as the man to succeed Kenyatta due to his popularity inside and outside Parliament. He and former Rangwe MP Joseph Ouma Muga, who was then a university lecturer, were central figures in the revolutionary council that co-ordinated the coup plot. Both were later sentenced to lengthy jail terms.
Mutiso does not deny or confirm his role in the ‘revolution’ bid that was exposed after some of the plotters went to seek support from former Tanzanian President, the late Julius Nyerere.

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Folks,

Check out for this information and connect the dots…….

This information from USAID Administrator Dr. Rajiv Shah also applys to Kenya and the rest of Africa as follows:-

USAID will be more effective and profitable to the People Public of Kenya at Local Grassroots Community level with the passing of the New Constitution at Referendum, than it is now………The Reason why “YES” is a FACTOR, and the reasons why Kenyans should vote “YES” is because of VALUE the Kenyans People will gain in the CHANGE after the REFERENDUM for the New Constitution …….Thus:

1) USAID staff will work alongside to promote Social Entrepreneurship in creating and supporting small business undertaking with the Civil Society, Faith Based, individuals, and the Local Community to realize and make sure the Developmental projects succeed and reach their goals.

2) The USAID Staff (as will provide in the New Constitution) will work shoulder-to-shoulder with all beneficiaries and partners in Government, including Civil Society, Faith Based and the Private Sector to promote Development Agenda to its meeting the goals and success

3) No funds will be diverted to other projects other than those indicated the funds are disbursed for, as has been the case, where funding intended for projects in other regions are privately and locally transferred to different areas or regions without express permission of the USAID Agency by the Government’s intervention, e.g. evidential proof of many cases, where some regions were marginalized…..and such like funds for Cotton growing in Nyanza, were diverted to other regions as was during former President Moi’s rulership.

4) In case where funds are diverted and did not trickle down to the Grassroot Community, People Public have the right to demand for their rights through legal justice which is not practical presently.

5) Information of all funding and disbursements will be made public and People Public have a right to access them without any bottleneck or bureaucracy, as it is now

6) Development speed and turn of events for progress will now be faster in the New Constitution than it is in the current Constitution

7) Civil Society, Individuals, Faith Based i.e. the Religious Organizations and Private Sector will now have access to open dialogue with the Government as Partners in Development working hand in hand and in consultation in the New Constitution that it is in the current constitution

8) Professionals will work in concerted efforts with the Government as Partners to implement and effect user friendly programs for Progress and prosperity to achieve Greener Development Agenda and to preserve and protect the Environment in the New Constitution than it is in the current one

9) Accessability to funding will be made easy and Government Officials will be available for assistance and accountable for the same

10) Transparency and accountability will be assessed and monitored very closely and therefore Poverty will be reduced to more than half in the New Constitution and Corruption and Impunity will be reduced drastically a thing which will be under close watch to bring peace and order

11) Public Funds that were stolen will be recovered through Legal Justice

12) Opportunity for Progress in Development will be realized sooner than it has previously been, thus providing for realistic serious Foreign investors (with public benefiting without manipulation) under Development Partnership for progress, which will bring value for Social Entrepreneurship and Cultural Heritage Diversity with extended Educational Learning and Research

13) The New Constitution is therefore a beacon for Progress and Prosperity encompassing the Millenium Development Agenda to eradicate POVERTY from the face of the third world. The reason why The New Constitution is Far Better than the current constitution and cannot wait for another day ……The Reason Why Kenyans in Great Numbers should VOTE ….”YES” at the Referendum in August 4th 2010

14) Kenya and the Rest of African cannot afford to lag behind during these times of Global Economic

Collapse……..The More Reason why Kenya and Africa must identify with America as Partners in Development for Progress, Prosperity and Security for a Better World.

15) The New Constitution is Democracy at its best, that which Kenyans have been waiting for far too long, it is that which will bring Real Independence for the People Public of the Citizens of Kenya, respecting People Public wishes and eliminating all forms of corruption and impunity. People must decide to achieve Good Governance and just Rule of Law and all those against violation of Human Rights must heed that what Kenyans want to achieve which is “The People Power of Democratization in the making”, which is not the case in the current constitution, and that, the People Public majority of Kenya have decided along with the Government to Vote “YES” at the Referendum and for them, “Time is Running Out”, they cannot wait for Drama of delaying tactics from the masterminders and Agents of “NO” who belong to the minority groups shareholders of Special Interests, those who have corrupted the Country to its knees and subjected it to Impunity in the magnitude of serious violations of Human Rights. This therefore, is the struggle for Freedom, and freedom is calling now, we cannot wait.

God Bless you all

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

But Now, the mystery of Malaria insecticide sprayed inside the houses in
Luo Nyanza I believe is a killer and must be investigated by the Parliament
….again, connect the dots………and ask yourself, how, why, when, who for
and what?……I cannot doubt faul play with submarine underground tech.
movement……..Now you can understand OGEGO’s DRAMA +
Special Interest Connection in the US from A – Z.

Why, Okoiti Omtata, Jirongo, Ruto, The US Kenya Christian Fellowship
netword, Dr. Barack Abonyo & Esq. why they behave the way they
have been………..Ask, who is behind the buying of
Parcels of Land in Luo Nyanza, and How, Dominion is connected
to all these…….that if the smart people do not kill you by the gun,
they frustrate you, if they dont on the other they plan road accidents,
if not, the spray you with insecticide…… May God Help Kenya and
Kenyans. ….. What Next People……so, Chunga and know who your
True Civil Society and Local Community members are…But Change
is Now.
JAMES SHIKWATI – From Stone Throwing to Wealth Creators

‘James Shikwati’ (born 1970) is a Kenyan libertarian economist and Director of the Inter Region Economic Network who promotes freedom of trade as the driving solution to poverty in Africa. He has made comments which imply that aid towards Africa does nothing but harm to their people, based on the central arguments that it is mainly used either by politicians as a tool to manipulate people and influence votes, or as a mechanism for dumping subsidised foreign agricultural products onto local markets at below cost making it nearly impossible for African farmers to compete.

James Shikwati is a writer and a commentator on public policy with a special interest in development, environment, trade and agriculture related issues. He has written widely on a variety of subjects in Kenyan and international newspapers, magazines, such as ”The Times”, ”The Guardian”, ”The Wall Street Journal”, ”The Washington Post”, ”The Sydney Herald”, ”The Business News”, ”The Daily Nation” and ”The East African Standard”.

He has worked extensively with internationally acclaimed opinion leaders to promote ideas that improve productivity, and increase freedom to trade as a way to alleviate poverty. He has also participated in various international forums that focus on promotion of trade such as, The East African – American Business Summit, the AGOA initiative in Mauritius, the World Trade Organization mini ministerial in Sydney, the World Trade Organization ministerial meeting in Cancún and the World Economic Forum in Chattanooga – U.S.A. He facilitates several workshops every year throughout Africa geared towards promoting productivity and trade.

He is the founder and Executive Director of a think tank known as the Inter Region Economic Network [IREN], a non-profit independent public policy research and educational organization that promotes market-based responses to contemporary social – economic and environmental issues. He is the Country Director for Students In Free Enterprise [SIFE Kenya] and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of an online business magazine ”The African Executive” that is published weekly by IREN.

On 6 July 2007, Mr. James Shikwati was named among top 100 most influential Kenyans in a study that was conducted by The Standard Group (http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143970915), one of the Kenya’s leading media houses, he was described as one person whose decisions and actions are not motivated by the publicity they attract but by passion for what they do.

IREN’s Events

From the IREN Information Desk

Details Call James Shikwati or Jacqueline Sungu

Tel 254-20-2731497, Email info@irenkenya.com

Subject: SIFE Kenya hosts 14 Vice Chancellors Meeting with Business Sector (May 23, 2007 Pan Afric Hotel 12.30 – 2.30pm)

The SIFE Kenya Business Advisory Council members under the leadership of Nyambura Koigi (MD Postbank) will host a special meeting for varsity Vice Chancellors to discuss on how academia can partner with business community to promote youth entrepreneurship in Kenya . This event is geared towards solidifying the gains that SIFE Kenya has made for the last 5 years towards promoting youth business and entrepreneurship. Students In Free Enterprise program covers 15 universities and is set to expand to others institutions starting next year. Syngenta East Africa Ltd is expected to announce a 3 year support schedule for business promotion among the youth at the conclusion of this event.

Subject: The Africa Unity Day – Theme: Positioning Africa in the 21st Century (May 25th 2007 6.00 – 7.30pm Pan Afric Hotel)

The dream of the founding fathers of the Organization of Africa Unity (O.A.U) was to have a United States of Africa. Is Africa ripe for political and economic integration? Africans who share this vision will converge at the Pan Afric hotel for a cup of Kahawa moto (Coffee). IREN invites you to join in…! The keynote address will be delivered by Mr. Chaacha Mwita, Group Managing Editor; The Standard Group.

Subject: The 5th SIFE Kenya Exposition on Entrepreneurship. May 26, 2007, Panafric Hotel, 8.00am – 6.00pm

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) Kenya will showcase the largest university student exposition in Kenya that promotes entrepreneurship and business thinking among the youth in Kenya . Over 25 leading Company CEOs will be present. 15 University SIFE teams will be competing for Coca-Cola Africa Foundation Entrepreneurship awards and National exposition championship. The leading University will proceed to New York in October for the SIFE International Entrepreneurship Exposition that brings together 47 countries from all over the World. “The first generation of post-independence African universities focused on providing functionaries for the civil service. African countries are facing new challenges related to participation in the global economy and SIFE provides just the right environment for students to meet this challenges upon graduation” says James Shikwati; SIFE Kenya Country Director.

IREN International High School Debate Competition on Development Issues June 9, 2007, Panafric Hotel, 8.00am – 6.00pm

Theme: The benefits and challenges facing the East Africa Cooperation and how to enhance this cooperation

Member countries of the East African Community (EAC) are sensitizing their citizens on the importance of the integration and seeking their views and expectations. The EAC Africa Community is imperative if East African countries are to play a meaningful role in the rapidly globalizing world, command respect from the international community, enhance broad economic, social and political interests, and attain greater international bargaining power. In recognition of this, the Inter Region Economic Network (IREN) will host high school students from Kenya Uganda and Tanzania , who will debate on development and the EAC.

For more information on IREN/SIFE events in general contact Anne on Tel 254-20-2731497, Email anne@irenkenya.com
Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS)
Indoor residual spraying (IRS) is the application of small amounts of insecticide to the interior walls of houses to kill or sometimes repel malaria-transmitting mosquitoes. IRS is a highly effective, proven malaria prevention strategy that saves lives.

The Use of DDT
Woman in Zanzibar training for Indoor Residual Spraying
The President’s Malaria Initiative launched an indoor residual spraying campaign in Zanzibar, impacting 210,000 homes and helping over 1 million people. Source: USAID/Tanzania
The use of the insecticide DDT for IRS is very different from the massive agricultural applications that led to the ban of DDT in the United States and other countries, both in terms of the amounts of insecticide used and the potential risks to the environment. If used correctly for this purpose, it poses no known risk to human health. Malaria, on the other hand, kills more than 1 million people each year, the vast majority of whom are African children.

USAID adheres to strict environmental guidelines, approval processes, and procedures for the use of DDT and all other World Health Organization (WHO)-approved insecticides in its malaria control programs. We work with WHO and national partners to build country-level capacity to ensure the safe and judicious use of all insecticides, including DDT, used in malaria control programs.

DDT is one of the WHO-approved insecticides for IRS. Its use for IRS to prevent malaria is an allowable exception under the Stockholm Convention – also known as the Persistent Organic Pollutants Treaty or POPs Treaty – when used in accordance with WHO guidelines and when safe, effective, and affordable alternatives are not available. The Stockholm Convention aims to eventually end the use of all POPs, including DDT.

DDT is more effective and less expensive than many other insecticides in many situations; as a consequence it is a very “competitive” choice for IRS programs. Interest in IRS, with DDT specifically, has increased in WHO, national control programs, donors, and other partners, with recent examples of successful applications, particularly in southern Africa.

The determination of which of the WHO-approved insecticides to use for USAID’s IRS programs is made in coordination with the host-country malaria control program, with the primary objective of preventing as many malaria infections and deaths as possible in the most efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable way, and in accordance with national policies and capacities.

USAID has never had a “policy” as such either “for” or “against” DDT for IRS. The real change in the past two years has been a new interest and emphasis on the use of IRS in general – with DDT or any other insecticide – as an effective malaria prevention strategy in tropical Africa. For example, in fiscal year 2005 USAID supported less than $1 million of IRS in Africa, with programs utilizing insecticides purchased by the host government or another donor. For fiscal year 2006, in the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and in other bilateral programs, USAID will support more than $20 million in IRS programs in Africa, including the direct purchase of insecticides. This dramatic increase in the scale of our IRS programs overall is the greatest factor in DDT’s recent prominence in USAID programs.

Plans to Support IRS
In fiscal year (FY) 2005 USAID provided approximately $1 million support to IRS in Africa, in most cases utilizing insecticides purchased by the host government or another donor.
For FY 2006, USAID is providing more than $20 million in support of IRS activities in eight African countries, including the direct purchase of insecticides, spraying equipment, protective gear, environmental assessments, training of spray personnel and information, education, and communication for local residents.
USAID is currently supporting IRS with DDT in Zambia.
This year, pending completion and satisfactory results of all necessary entomological and environmental assessments, USAID plans to support IRS with DDT in Ethiopia and Mozambique (including purchase of the insecticide); and also in Madagascar (using DDT purchased by another donor).
With FY 2006 funding, USAID is supporting IRS with insecticides other than DDT in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Angola.
In FY 2007 the PMI will add four new countries, Malawi, Senegal, Rwanda, and Mozambique. It is expected that funding for IRS will be part of the malaria control activities supported by the PMI in all of these countries.

From Stone Throwers to Wealth Creators

Who is a university student in Africa? Many times, university students in Africa are viewed to be an unruly mob. ‘Any time I drive past a university compound, I feel a sense of uneasiness, I know students for stone throwing and violence’, a motorist was quoted recently. Things are changing in Kenya. Despite the hard economic times that students especially in public universities undergo; a new group of young and energetic individuals has emerged with a mission of changing the way thing work in public institutions. That is why, the recent victory of Moi University, in a national entrepreneurship exposition surprised many analysts.

Students in Free Enterprise [SIFE Kenya] in conjunction with the Inter Region Economic Network [IREN Kenya] hosted the 3rd national university business and entrepreneurship exposition at the Panafric Hotel on Saturday May 28, 2005. In this event, Moi University Eldoret, were crowned the 2005 SIFE Kenya National Champions after beating 10 other universities in a highly competitive league. Moi University will proceed to Toronto (Canada) in early October to represent Kenya in SIFE World Cup an international exposition that will attract university teams from 42 countries world wide.

Moi University SIFE (MU-SIFE) was launched on 13th April 2004 under the umbrella body of SIFE Kenya. SIFE Kenya is a network of university teams aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and establishing linkages between business ventures, institutions of higher learning and communities. MU-SIFE has experienced a massive growth from a team of 13 students to 159 drawn from all disciplines in the institution. Located 40 Kms away from Eldoret town, Moi University was the second public university to be established in 1984 through the Mackay Commission as a college of Technology. It has a current population of 12000 students from the initial population of 64 spread out in 4 campuses.
Among the notable projects that MU-SIFE team is currently involved in are, Blooming Falls, that teaches small scale farmers vegetable production, Fertile attraction, that teaches farmers how to make cheap fertilizer, Biashara Nawiri that equips small and medium enterprise (SME) owners with entrepreneurial skills and their initiative of turning Kesses Dam into a recreational center. The team is also working with the Bindura children’s home teaching entrepreneurship with the aim of making the home financially independent. They also have the Green Power Project that aims at providing an alternative cheap and locally available fuel to replace the use of charcoal among others. Moi University SIFE is also remembered for having raised Kshs 65,000 towards the famine relief efforts through The Standard-KTN appeal last year.

In their Blooming Falls project, the team has been able to totally transform the life of a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Tarus. Mr. Tarus works as a security guard while his wife is a vegetable vendor. She used to walk for almost 35 KMS in search of vegetables for sale. This is because farmers in the locality mainly concentrate on maize and wheat farming. They used to plant maize on their 2 acre land and their annual income was Kshs 20,000. MU-SIFE managed to convince the couple to plant vegetables on one acre of their farm. The results are remarkable. Their daily income now stands at an average of Kshs 300 estimated at Kshs 72,000 annually. With this, their family is fed, clothed and their children send to school. In the past, this was impossible. According to Mr.Tarus, he used to take emergency loans from his employer just to be able to feed his family. His neighbors having seen the transformation have vowed to follow in his footsteps once their current maize crop is harvested. He now plans to expand his vegetable farm to the other acre. “If any life has been changed according to the SIFE spirit of changing the world, then I am the first one changed.” Mr. Tarus said. To the couple SIFE is god send and their lives will never be the same again. The SME owners have also formed a Sacco and some of them have opened accounts with Post Bank Kenya.

University students have most of the times been portrayed as unruly and living in utopia. The MU-SIFE initiatives have therefore taken their administrators by surprise. This was evident from their comments during a meeting facilitated by the Vice Chancellor’s office and the MU-SIFE team. According to Dr. Sang, the Chief Administrative Officer, the SIFE team portrays a different type of students. Dr. Sang had to be reassured that the neatly dressed, organized young people he was seating with were actually his students. Prof. Gudu, (Deputy Vice Chancellor, Planning and Development) said that the students work was very impressive. “Initially I had no idea what SIFE was all about until I got hold of their annual report. I go through a lot of reports daily and dismiss quite a number of them due to their theoretical nature. But here are students who have actually gone out into the field and done something tangible and on top of that produced a high caliber report” Prof. Gudu remarked. “What we have always had on paper the SIFE team has beaten us to it by implementing programs on the ground,” observed Dr. Rono, Head of sociology Department during the official handing over ceremony of the team’s trophy and certificates.

“The program has also been beneficial to the students both as a team and on individual basis” said Diana Ntinyari the team’s Vice President. “We have learnt how to work as a team noting that we come from diverse backgrounds. As a business management student, I have been able to put my theoretical knowledge to test. On top of that I have learnt how to plant Sukuma Wiki and other vegetables!” She added.

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), founded in the United States in 1975, is a positive grassroots student movement active on more than 1700 university campuses in more than 40 countries. The principle of SIFE is simple. Through teaching others, SIFE students gain a practical understanding of how market economies work. They gain the opportunity to make a lasting difference in their communities and to develop leadership, teamwork and communication skills. Through outreach programs, SIFE students are helping the community confront issues such as illiteracy, an under-educated workforce, economic naivety, the dangers of deficit spending and government over-regulation. ‘We at SIFE are investing heavily in the future of Africa, that is, the African youth. I welcome any one with a vision for this continent to join us in this quest.’ said James Shikwati, SIFE Kenya country Director.

By Jacqueline Sungu
SIFE Kenya Program Manager

Kenyan Regional Enterprise Budget and Business Plan Development
by Carole Engle, University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and Mucai Muchiri, Moi University

here is a great deal of interest in the development of successful aquaculture businesses in the East Africa region. Researchers at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff and Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya, are collaborating in the development of enterprise budgets for both tilapia monoculture and tilapia–Clarias spp. polyculture. Budgets will be developed for cash systems based on on-farm inputs and for commercial systems based on purchased feeds and fertilizers. The enterprise budgets developed will be published for distribution with
Moi University—in Eldoret, Kenya—aquaculture facilities.
Photo By: Kevin Fitzsimmons
instructions to farmers on how these can be adapted to their particular situation and farm.

A summary of marketing information will be prepared for each of the production systems/scenarios proposed. Fundamental market information required to present the market plan component will be included. This will include information on prices, product forms, market channels, volume requirements for various market channels, and potential target market segments. Economic planning tools such as these under development in Kenya will assist existing and prospective tilapia farmers to increase the likelihood of developing successful businesses through adequate business planning and monitoring.

The proposed activity will produce enterprise budgets and pro forma financial statements for business plans that can be used as guides for prospective and existing fish farmers. A sound business plan is required by financial institutions before extending credit to any new enterprise. The information developed in this project will not only provide farmers with the appropriate tools to show profitability, but it will also help lending institutions to better assess the viability of aquaculture projects and reduce the rate of failure in loan repayment. Furthermore, this effort will identify the gaps in the existing database on fish farming in Kenya and the region.

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Regional Enterprise Budget And Business Plan Development
Marketing and Economic Analysis Research 3 (10MEAR3)/Activity/Kenya

Collaborating Institution
Moi University, Kenya
Mucai Muchiri

University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff
Carole R. Engle

Objectives
1) Collect and organize the information necessary to prepare enterprise budgets and business plans for several fish production systems.
2) Promote business-oriented thinking among farmers and encourage record-keeping much needed for effective extension efforts.
Significance
There is a great deal of interest in the development of successful aquaculture businesses in the East Africa region. With the development of the new core site in Kenya, there is an important opportunity to utilize economic planning tools as a basis for an integrated research-outreach effort designed to have a quick and substantial impact on the region. Recently, a workshop organized in Sagana, Kenya, identified and emphasized the need for business planning as critical to the success of the aquaculture sector in the country. This activity will identify the gaps in information that are critical to the development of comprehensive business plans for aquaculture businesses. PD/A CRSP field research studies could then be designed to fill in the gaps in production information to fully support the incipient aquaculture businesses in Kenya and the East Africa region.

Quantified Anticipated Benefits
The proposed activity will produce enterprise budgets and pro forma financial statements for business plans that can be used as guides for prospective and existing fish farmers. A sound business plan is required by financial institutions to obtain credit. The information developed under this work plan will not only provide farmers with the appropriate tools to show profitability, but also help lending institutions to better assess the viability of aquaculture projects and reduce the rate of failure in loan repayment. Furthermore, this effort will identify the gaps in the existing database on fish farming in Kenya and the region. These gaps can then be addressed through subsequent CRSP-funded research. This will reduce the time for the overall project to demonstrate an impact in the region.

Activity Plan
Location: The majority of the analytical work will be conducted at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB). However, there will be close collaboration with the PD/A CRSP Africa project and Moi University. Several trips to Kenya over the course of the activity will be made to collect additional information as needed and for the training component implemented as part of this activity.
Methods: The Regional Plan for East Africa identifies “Regional Enterprise Budget Development” as a key activity for the new Africa site. The effort to develop enterprise budgets and pro forma financial statements for business plans has been initiated. A workshop was organized at the Sagana Fish Farm, Sagana, Kenya, September 17-19 1997 with the main objective being to provide joint input into the ninth work plan. Additional objectives were to 1) identify local constraints to the development of aquaculture, 2) define the current state of knowledge about selected production systems, 3) establish the mechanism of data collection and analysis, 4) regionalize aquaculture objectives and 5) recommend actions to be taken to attain local and regional objectives. Recommendations of this workshop emphasized the need for aquaculture business planning along with a reinforcement of the linkages between research and extension. Following the recommendations of the workshop and in accordance with the Regional Plan for Africa, this activity will lead to the collection of production and economic data relevant to selected production systems. A standard form will be designed for data collection. Data collected will enable the development of enterprise budgets necessary for business planning. During this effort, the information gaps will be addressed.

Enterprise budgets will be developed for the production systems selected. Production systems will utilize tilapia as the primary species in either monoculture or polyculture with Clarias spp. Two principal levels of production systems will be analyzed: 1) non-cash systems based on on-farm inputs; and 2) commercial systems based on purchased feeds and fertilizers. Standard conventions and procedures as presented in Kay (1994) will be used to develop the budgets. However, the presentation of the budgets will follow both the U.S. and the host country’s methods of budgeting. For those cost and return items for which data are lacking or deemed insufficient, sensitivity analyses will be conducted to present a range of potential economic outcomes from a particular enterprise. These same items will be those identified as constituting gaps in existing knowledge and for which additional research may be recommended. The enterprise budgets developed will be published for distribution with instructions to farmers on how these can be adapted to their particular situation and farm.

From the enterprise budgets, pro forma financial statements (including annual cost and returns, estimate of total required capital, balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow budgets) will be developed for the production systems and average farm sizes selected. These statements will be in a form usable for presentation in an aquaculture business plan or loan proposal. Any additional gaps in the knowledge base identified in this activity will further be specified as those needing additional research. The financial statements will be published with instructions containing a spreadsheet for farmers to enter farm-specific data as needed.

A workshop will be organized and held in Kenya by the PD/A CRSP representative and the project Co-PIs. The workshop will be used to present and train participants to interpret the enterprise budgets, financial statements and marketing information compiled. While there is a wide range of educational levels among Kenyan farmers, the general educational level is higher than that commonly assumed in developing countries. The general level of record-keeping is likewise higher than commonly assumed. It will further present methods for using this information to acquire financing for aquaculture businesses and to use this planning base for decision-making on the farm.

Regional Integration
This activity responds directly to the first objective listed in the Regional Plan for East Africa. Although the 1997 Sagana workshop did not include representatives from other African countries, recommendations of the workshop addressed regional objectives and concerns and included tentative plans for future collaboration in Tanzania and Uganda. This effort to develop enterprise budgets and financial statements for aquaculture will ensure that production systems selected will be appropriate and relevant to Kenya. The marketing information will be from the potential markets accessible to the proposed production units and will be compiled by major potential target markets.

Schedule
7/1/01 Initiate project.
6/30/02 Enterprise budgets will be compiled along with the necessary sensitivity analyses for the production systems selected.
4/30/03 Pro forma financial statements will be completed. Marketing information reports will be completed and made available. A workshop will be organized. Final report will be submitted.

Literature Cited
Kay, R.D. and W.M. Edwards, 1994. Farm Management, 3rd Edition. McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York.

Folks,

Could the Religious Mafia be an extention of the problem in Kenya and

Africa? There could be a serious Conspiracy to Blackmail Kenya and

Africa…..Money has been poured to cover your eyes, but remember, your

destiny is in your hands people……You are about to gain the People Power

by endorsing and voting “YES” at the Referendum for the New Constitution.

Kenya will definately need an International Special Administrative and

Security Peace Team to oversee the Referendum election…..There are

notable International Interests from the Special Interest Republican and

others working under water in submarine Mission still unknown, who will

come out in moments notice and by surprise to reignforce the “NO” Team

to defeat the Referendum on August 4th 2010….and we do not want to take

chances. The fight of Referendum have many strings attached and the United

Nations with Leaders of the World should step in to save Kenya.

I am surprised also that the Luo Nyanza Members of Parliament have let

down the Luos. They aught to have gone to their Constituents two weeks

ago, but refused to stay back in Nairobi to make money…….Time is running

out as Luos are already divided into 3 sections. Some are on the fence

because the matter at hand is now confusing, others will vote “NO” as they

have been bought and the remaining one third will vote for “YES” out of good

faith.

Time is short and they do not need a miracle planner….all they need is to

take this Civic Education to the village Local Radio listners and TV and

provide the education on Radio just incase other areas are not reached. I

have heard of a number of local complaints and Luo Nyanza are taking the

Civic Education very lighly…..No body wants to be taken for granted when it

comes to Civic Education to the Public, so they know their rights…..But, the

behaviour from some of these Members of Parliament from Greater Luo

Nyanza were quite embarrasing…

I am troubled by the DRAMA in Kenya. Bethwel Kiplagat says the problem in

Kenya is polarization of Religion, if they know that is the problem, why do

they not tell the public how that is….there seems to be a hidden conspiracy

Kenyans should know about…..For Kiplagat to speak confidently, he knows

something about the Religion factor who are after protecting their interest

even after their being highly suspected and asked to step aside for

investigation, why they hide under the wings of Special Interest Republican

funding. I went ahead to make my investigations, and……..

Here is what I found:

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That most Pentecostal oriented churches in Kenya are Christian Mafia who joined Freemasonry
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They support “NO” so Kenya should not have their Independence and Peace
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The “NO” have deep connection with Special Interest Republicans, the reason the Special Interest Republicans financed the “NO” whose Agenda is not for the interest of the People Public of Kenya, and not conforming with the National Reform Agenda.
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The “NO” are not educating the public through Civic Education, but they are promoting lies and cheap propaganda with threats
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They keep shifting gears mara ABORTION is the problem, and now KADHI COURTS
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They are baying after BLOOD the reason former President MOI said, if Referendum will take place, there will be blood shed
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The reason why the Special Interest Republican group are using Sara Palin to trash President Obama
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Civic Education for the Kenyans and Africa in general, is to provide education in order that the public are informed to be able to achieve good Democratizations Governance with Justified Legal dispensations as part of the package requirement for Partnership Development, which the Civil Society should be equiped to be able to hold their leaders accountable

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In the US, the reason the Tea Party of Sara Palin planted a BillBoard picture of President Obama, is to depict President Obama negatively on the face of the world that he is another Hitler of today ……
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The reason Special Interest Republican connects in extention, their opposing fights from US to Kenya, and have ganged with the Moi/Ruto “NO” group to deny Kenya the New Constitution………
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The reason Ruto, the Commander of YK92 is draging President Obama’s name on his rallies challenging Ranneberger to create more confusion and conflicts, ……..
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Ruto and Moi are not telling Kenyans anything New….and they are not explaining to Kenyans why they grabbed their lands and other taxpayers resources as well as other public facilities for themselves……..and privately and stealthyly greasing Special Interest Republicans with fat Renumerations…….the reasons they have shown a lot of interest in blocking Kenyans/Africa from gaining their freedom and turning Kenya/Africa to a damping ground for Genetically Modified Foods when they have been rejected in the USA.
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Kadhi’s Court has never been an issue with the people of Kenya and Kenyans Christians have never had any problem with their Muslim brothers, I am surprised the Special Interest Republicans are dragging this issue down the throat of Kenyans through their “NO” Agents to create a problem between Islam and Christianity. This their cooked plan will fail miserably and it will backfire back to the “NO”. These faked Bling Bling Charismatic Christian Leaders will be dealt with heavy casualties, when true faithfuls Christians will make “No Show to their Churches”…..and since True Religious Kenyans do not want any conflicting idiologies to divide them with their Muslim brothers, the People Public will choose “YES”, so they can move forward. with development agenda for building their future which will get them out of poverty.
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Let Ruto write to US, we are here to defend both our interest, that which US and Kenya will gain both ways in the balance of Partnership for Development in give and take format…….where poor Kenyans/Africa will never be taken for granted or soil in poverty again
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We want Moi/Ruto to tell the world the mystery about what happened to Dr. Robert Ouko after their Breakfast Prayer Meeting at a Breakfast Prayer Meeting in Washington DC where after a few days, Dr. Ouko was killed and slaughtered like a chicken…..
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That the Republican Special Interest group with the “NO” Agents of Kenya should know, there is no one way ticket to, Peace, Unity, Love, prosperity, growth and expansion, if there are no cooperation with good will or when we do not appreciate each other in whichever way and form, that the World has become a Global Market we all must learn to dialogue and agree to disagree in harmony
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that Corruption and Impunity must be dealt with severely and in finality, and that Transparency and Accountability must be the Driver of Economic Development of any Nation…..those of the Third World as well as those in the Developed World so to block loopholes of Corruption and Poverty in Africa
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That the Special Interest Republicans must Agree and Accept that Africa is Ready for Reform so to live a honorable life with dignity and are ready to meet with the competition and challenges of Economic Growth of the World, if not invaded and divided through conflicts by the Corrupt Special Interest Network who supply weaponry through their Mafia Network to cause disUnity and Division for continued war in African for special interest gains, this must end
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Why are the Special Interest Republican exporting their hate for President Obama from to Kenya and presumably to the whole of Africa. Why do they want to block Obama’s Foreign Policy for Africa from taking place to remove Corruption and Impunity, Poverty and checks and balances? Why dont they believe, Kenya and Africa as a whole also want to live a honorable and dignified life……why are they blocking President Obama all the way from achieving his Campaign promises to replace him with Sara Palin, is this not an insult?
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Special Interest Republicans must begin to walk their talks and begin to show Unity for purpose and Love for Africa to get out of Poverty, and they must also agree that President Obama has the best Foreign Policy for Africa, that if we all work together in a united front, we will all win and be happy

President Obama have made 3 major achievements for the American People in just less than two years…….i.e. The Recovery Act, health reform, and now Wall Street reform…..But still the Special Interest Republicans do not love him…. Instead of celebrating and thanking God for the good news, they come up with idea of bringing Obama down……what are they up to?…… The Special Interest Republicans must walk the walk and talk the talk for a better future to all of us.

Because the Special Interest Republicans hate President Obama, they decide to bring confusion to Kenya by opposing “YES” in support for “NO” knowing too well, the majority Kenyans are not in support of “NO” and that the group of “NO” are having vested interest not to support Civic Education or preach the Truth about the Reform Agenda as is in the New Constitution, that the New Agenda will give Kenyan People Public Power to work as Partners in the checks and balances of their future and destiny…..and therefore, the “NO” group does not have the best interest of Kenyan People at heart……..

We are begging to question a few cases which we may want answers, because, out of some maneuvres going ons, we want the US Congress to investigate, how…..we are concerned that there are some dusts that need to be cleared………

Dr. Robert Ouko came for breadfast meeting at Washington DC, after which, upon coming back, he was painfully killed like an animal……

Is There A Conspiracy between those of the “NO” and the US Special Interest Republicans, that which Kenyans, Africans and the world should know about? ….. OR do they know something about Robert Ouko’s death or why Dr. Robert Ouko was killed?

It is important that we work together to remove the curse that befal Kenyans and Africa in general……..we may be out of the plan of God from things that have been done in secret to some innocent souls and we must get back on track so God is able to forgive us……

Voting “NO” is giving Moi, Ruto and Special Interest Republicans more power to continue to destroy people of Africa and that Corruption and Impunity to continue in toll order and POVERTY and HOMELESSNESS to be Africa’s Death Bed.
People….. !, try to connect the dots ………There is urgent
need to vote “YES” in order, and with People Power as is in
the New Constitution, fix what need to be fixed, without
being controlled for the corner of Iron-Fist power wielders,
so we can overcome the mess of hate and disunity, and
promote love that which will benefit all and remove
POVERTY on the face of Kenya and Africa.

Without that, Kenya and Africa will continue to be under siege of
Moi and Ruto with the Mafia connections as well of those of
Christian Religious Mafia connection, also, President Obama will
not be able to implement Foreign Reform Agenda he has for the
people of Kenya and Africa, …… This is because he knows that by
Faith, “YES We Can”……..

Thanks,

Judy Miriga
Diaspora Spokesperson
Executive Director
Confederation Council Foundation for Africa Inc.,
USA
http://socioeconomicforum50.blogspot.com

MPs paralyse House business

NTVKenya | July 14, 2010

Members of Parliament continue to be unmoved in their resolve to increase their pay perks. Business in the August house stalled as the MP’s stayed away. This came as lobby groups threatened to petition the president to dissolve the house after the referendum if the issue is not resolved.

Query over rush for varsity honour ….. What Type of Degrees are
being awarded here ? ? ?

NTVKenya | July 15, 2010

The latest scam in the country, and it is all about honorary degrees. 25 prominent Kenyans have been awarded those degrees in 2 years add to that 6 current presidents and two former heads of state all from the same university in the united states of America. The director of the college says it has over 100,000 members

US Referendum Funding Row

standardgroupkenya | July 15, 2010

United States ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger says he will not be intimidated and will continue conducting civic education on the proposed constitution despite protests from the ‘no’ camp. A day after three American lawmakers demanded an investigation into U.S government funding of the process, Ranneberger says he has not been campaigning for the yes vote. And as K-t-n’s Emmanuel Talam reports, the no team is warning it will write to the U.S government to protest the alleged funding of groups involved in the yes campaigns.

Making of a constitution

NTVKenya | July 13, 2010

NTV goes down the annals of history with some of the key players that have shaped the debate and the battle for a new constitution.

Inside The Constitution Pt. 1

Inside the Constitution Part 2.mov

Inside the Constitution: Storm over illegal edit

Is Ranneberger Overstepping?

You miss the point, Rannebeger is not telling people to vote YES or NO, he is conducting civic education and organizing forums where the truth about the draft can be got, this should be appreciated by both camps, be you YES or NO so that people who are not able to access civic education can do so and make informed choices away from the propaganda, misinformation and lies from whichever quaters.

Would you rather people made uninformed choices? Going by the challenges regarding funding for civic education, he is stepping in a void that needs to be filled.

Only a person who wishes people not to know what is in the draft KATIBA is afraid of Rannebegers exploits, after all, he does not go there armed with anything else, not the American Constitution, not a novel on fiction, he goes to these foras armed with the draft KATIBA, isn’t it?

WHO IS MICHAEL C. RUPPERT?

“This is the man who cost CIA Director Deutch his guaranteed appointment as Secretary of Defense after confronting him at Locke High School with hard facts about CIA dealing drugs.” – Dick Gregory

” …in the course of investigations in the mid 70’s he came across information that the CIA was trading drugs in order to fund covert operations in the Middle East…Perot called him back to offer

encouragement…Ruppert says that his main objective is to see that the country gets a leader worthy of its people. Even for Ross Perot those will be tough shoes to fill.” – PEOPLE MAGAZINE 6/22/92

The Record is Here

Learn More: OPENING REMARKS OF MICHAEL C. RUPPERT for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (WRITTEN STATEMENT WITH EXHIBITS)

Full Disclosure Part I – Michael Ruppert’s LAPD records
Full Disclosure Part II – The Legal Record Around His 1978 LAPD Resignation

The 1981 Herald Examiner Stories – Two consecutive front page stories got it mostly right but confirmed that Ruppert had stumbled on illegal covert operations:
Part One
Part Two

“Mike Ruppert is a one man crusade trying to expose America’s bogus war on drugs. From the time we met on the campaign trail in 1992 while filming THE LAST PARTY, through his challenge to John Deutch, Mike Ruppert has been on the front line trying to get the story out.” – Marc Levin, – Emmy award winning Director of PBS’s The Secret Government, THE LAST PARTY and Producer of Bill Moyers’ 1998 series on Addiction.

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Mike Ruppert, 54 is the author of 2004’s hot-selling political and economic exposé, Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. “Rubicon” was voted 2004 “Book of the Year” by the online review of books and was listed by C-SPAN as one of the five hottest selling political books of late 2004. Released in September, Rubicon remains high on the Amazon sales ranking charts and may soon have a second birth of popularity around the world as foreign language editions are released. A detailed interview with Mike has been included in the April, 2005 issue of HUSTLER Magazine with Mike’s name on the cover.

Mike is also the Publisher/Editor of From the Wilderness or FTW, a newsletter he founded in March 1998 by mailing out 68 copies to friends and researchers. FTW is now read by more than 20,000 subscribers in 40 countries including 40 members of the US Congress, the intelligence committees of both houses, and professors at 20 universities around the world. Through the newsletter and his website at www.fromthewilderness.com, Mike has pioneered innovative analysis and groundbreaking original stories on the impact of $5-600 billion per year in drug money moving through the US economy and the illegal covert operations which maintain control of that cash flow for US economic interests.

Since 9-11-01 Mike has been the point man in breaking major stories involving government foreknowledge, corruption and violations of the Constitution. He has also pioneered the effort to educate the world about the consequences of Peak Oil — the fact that the world is at or near an inevitable decline in the availability of hydrocarbon energy, and what this might mean for human civilization.

An Honors graduate of UCLA in Political Science (1973), Mike is a former LAPD narcotics investigator who discovered CIA trafficking in drugs in 1977. After attempting to expose this he was forced out of LAPD in 1978 while earning the highest rating reports possible and having no pending disciplinary actions. In 1996, after 18 years of struggle, he finally achieved one of his deepest wishes in a face to face public encounter with then CIA Director John Deutch on national television. Washington sources later told Mike that Deutch’s mishandling of the encounter cost him a guaranteed appointment as Secretary of Defense.

On November 28, 2001 Mike gave his first post 9-11 lecture at Portland State University, which was attended by more than 1,000 and resulted in a standing ovation. FTW’s video, The Truth and Lies About 9-11, has sold more than 15,000 copies. It includes special exclusive interviews with Representatives Ron Paul (R-TX), Cynthia McKinney (D-GA), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Professor Peter Dale Scott, (UC, Berkeley), Professor John Metzger (Michigan State) and Catherine Austin Fitts (former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Managing Director, Dillon Read).

FTW’s stories, including economic and military analysis, detailed exposés of the CIA and the American political and economic system, have been reprinted all over the world. A popular lecturer who has spoken in eight countries, Mike is beginning a new direction for FTW in 2005 focusing on breaking news in a world that is moving steadily toward global warfare, the draft and economic collapse. Mike’s future plans include relocating to semi-rural areas of the Pacific Northwest to begin a detailed study of post-petroleum living strategies with a view towards saving as many lives as possible after 2007

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Letter to the editor – Business Week

BLOOD MONEY OUT OF AFRICA

[On 6 April, 2001 Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D), GA. Boldly sponsored a forum on the totally ignored rape of Africa – a key part of the current headlong rush toward globalization. FTW has been woefully silent about Africa as we have reported on trends elsewhere in the world. We admit that this has been partially out of ignorance which we begin to correct now by posting (with permission) this report on her forum. As the planet coalesces with frightening speed into three dominant economic regions (The Western Hemisphere, Europe and Asia) it is critical to understand that the carnage in Africa can only accelerate. McKinney, who sits on the House International Relations Committee, is to be commended for her non-partisan critique of both Democratic and Republican Administrations. The following is about as ugly as it gets. – FTW]

Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

Covert Action in Africa: A Smoking Gun in Washington, D.C.

Rayburn House Office Building
Friday, April 6, 2001
10:00am – 12:00 noon

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Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney

OPENING STATEMENT

I want to thank you all for coming today.

I especially want to thank our esteemed speakers for traveling, in some instances quite a long way, to be with us today.

Our speakers are courageous individuals who have gone to many of Africa’s most dangerous and desperately poor locations, not for wealth or riches, but in order to merely discover the truth. They provide us with a remarkable insight into what has gone on in Africa and what continues to go on in Africa today.

Much of what you will hear today has not been widely reported in the public media. Powerful forces have fought to suppress these stories from entering the public domain.

Their investigations into the activities of Western governments and Western businessmen in postcolonial Africa provide clear evidence of the West’s long-standing propensity for cruelty, avarice, and treachery. The misconduct of Western nations in Africa is not due to momentary lapses, individual defects, or errors of common human frailty. Instead, they form part of long-term malignant policy designed to access and plunder Africa’s wealth at the expense of Africa’s people. In short, the accounts you are about to hear provide an indictment of Western activities in Africa.

The West has, for decades, plundered Africa’s wealth and permitted, and even, assisted in slaughtering Africa’s people. The West has been able to do this while still shrewdly cultivating the myth that much of Africa’s problems today are African made–we have all heard the usual Western defenses that Africa’s problems are the fault of corrupt African administrations, centuries-old tribal hatreds, the fault of unsophisticated peoples. But we know that those statements are all a lie. We have always known it.

The accounts we are about to hear today assist us in understanding just why Africa is in the state it is in today. You will hear that at the heart of Africa’s suffering is the West’s, and most notably the United States’, desire to access Africa’s diamonds, oil, natural gas, and other precious resources.

You will hear that the West, and most notably the United States, has set in motion a policy of oppression, destabilization and tempered, not by moral principle, but by a ruthless desire to enrich itself on Africa’s fabulous wealth. While falsely pretending to be the friends and allies of many African countries, so desperate for help and assistance, many western nations have in reality betrayed those countries’ trust–and instead, have relentlessly pursued their own selfish military and economic policies. Western countries have incited rebellion against stable African governments by encouraging and even arming opposition parties and rebel groups to begin armed insurrection.

The Western nations have even actively participated in the assassination of duly elected and legitimate African Heads of State and replaced them with corrupted and malleable officials. Western nations have even encouraged and been complicit in the unlawful invasions by African nations into neighboring counties.

Something must be done to right these wrongs.

I invite you to listen and learn first-hand of the West’s activities in Africa.

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Prepared Statement of Wayne Madsen

WHAT A DIFFERENCE AN ELECTION MAKES: OR DOES IT?

Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist who has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, CAQ, and the Intelligence Newsletter. He is the author of Genocide and Covert Activities in Africa 1993-1999 (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1999), an expose of U.S. and French intelligence activities in Africa’s recent civil wars and ethnic rebellions. He served as an on-air East Africa analyst for ABC News in the aftermath of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. Mr. Madsen has appeared on 60 Minutes, World News Tonight, Nightline, 20/20, MS-NBC, and NBC Nightly News, among others. He has been frequently quoted by the Associated Press, foreign wire services, and many national and international newspapers.

Mr. Madsen is also the author of a motion picture screen play treatment about the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion. He is a former U.S. Naval Officer and worked for the National Security Agency and U.S. Naval Telecommunications Command.

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I wish to discuss the record of American policy in Africa over most of the past decade, particularly that involving the central African Great Lakes region. It is a policy that has rested, in my opinion, on the twin pillars of unrestrained military aid and questionable trade. The military aid programs of the United States, largely planned and administered by the U.S. Special Operations Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), have been both overt and covert.

ACRI, ACSS, and the covert programs all involve the use of private military training firms and logistics support contractors that are immune to Freedom of Information Act requests. More troubling than these overt problems are those that involve covert assistance to the Rwandan and Ugandan militaries. Sources in the Great Lakes region consistently report the presence of a U.S.-built military base near Cyangugu, Rwanda, near the Congolese border. The base, reported to have been partly constructed by the U.S. firm Brown & Root, a subsidiary of Halliburton, is said to be involved with training RPF forces and providing logistics support to their troops in the DRC.

The increasing reliance by the Department of Defense on so-called Private Military Contractors (PMCs) is of special concern. Many of these PMCs — once labeled as “mercenaries” by previous administrations when they were used as foreign policy instruments by the colonial powers of France, Belgium, Portugal, and South Africa — have close links with some of the largest mining and oil companies involved in Africa today. PMCs, because of their proprietary status, have a great deal of leeway to engage in covert activities far from the reach of congressional investigators. They can simply claim that their business in various nations is a protected trade secret and the law now seems to be on their side.

THE DESTABILIZATION OF AFRICA

America’s policy toward Africa during the past decade, rather than seeking to stabilize situations where civil war and ethnic turmoil reign supreme, has seemingly promoted destabilization. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was fond of calling pro-U.S. military leaders in Africa who assumed power by force and then cloaked themselves in civilian attire, “beacons of hope.”

In reality, these leaders, who include the current presidents of Uganda, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Angola, Eritrea, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo preside over countries where ethnic and civil turmoil permit unscrupulous international mining companies to take advantage of the strife to fill their own coffers with conflict diamonds, gold, copper, platinum, and other precious minerals including one that is a primary component of computer microchips.

Some of the companies involved in this new “scramble for Africa” have close links with PMCs and America’s top political leadership. For example, America Minerals Fields, Inc., a company that was heavily involved in promoting the 1996 accession to power of the late Congolese President Laurent-Desire Kabila, was, at the time of its involvement in the Congo’s civil war, headquartered in Hope, Arkansas. Its major stockholders included long-time associates of former President Clinton going back to his days as Governor of Arkansas. America Mineral Fields also reportedly enjoys a close relationship with Lazare Kaplan International, Inc., a major international diamond brokerage whose president remains a close confidant of past and current administrations on Africa matters.

One of the major goals of the Rwandan-backed Rassemblement Congolais pour la Democratie (RCD), a group fighting the Kabila government in Congo, is restoration of mining concessions for Barrick Gold, Inc. of Canada. In fact, the rebel RCD government’s “mining minister” signed a separate mining deal with Barrick in early 1999. Among the members of Barrick’s International Advisory Board are former President Bush and former President Clinton’s close confidant Vernon Jordan.

Currently, Barrick and tens of other mining companies are stoking the flames of the civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Each benefits by the de facto partition of the country into some four separate zones of political control. First the mineral exploiters from Rwanda and Uganda concentrated on pillaging gold and diamonds from the eastern Congo. Now, they have increasingly turned their attention to a valuable black sand called columbite-tantalite or “col-tan.” Col-tan is a key material in computer chips and, therefore, is as considered a strategic mineral. It is my hope that the Bush administration will take pro-active measures to stem this conflict by applying increased pressure on Uganda and Rwanda to withdraw their troops from the country. However, the fact that President Bush has selected Walter Kansteiner to be Assistant Secretary of State for African, portends, in my opinion, more trouble for the Great Lakes region. A brief look at Mr. Kansteiner’s curriculum vitae and statements calls into question his commitment to seeking a durable peace in the region. For example, he has envisaged the splitting up of the Great Lakes region into separate Tutsi and Hutu states through “relocation” efforts and has called the break-up of the DRC inevitable. I believe Kansteiner’s previous work at the Department of Defense where he served on a Task Force on Strategic Minerals and one must certainly consider col-tan as falling into that category — may influence his past and current thinking on the territorial integrity of the DRC. After all, 80 per cent of the world’s known reserves of col-tan are found in the eastern DRC. It is potentially as important to the U.S. military as the Persian Gulf region.

The U.S. military and intelligence agencies, which have supported Uganda and Rwanda in their cross-border adventures in the DRC, have resisted peace initiatives and have failed to produce evidence of war crimes by the Ugandans and Rwandans and their allies in Congo. The CIA, NSA, and DIA should turn over to international investigators both signals intelligence and human intelligence evidence in their possession, as well as overhead imagery, including thermal imagery indicating the presence of mass graves and when they were dug. There must be a full accounting before the Congress by the staff of the U.S. Defense Attache’s Office in Kigali who served there from early 1994 to the present time.

A LINGERING QUESTION ON ASSASSINATIONS

The present turmoil in central Africa largely stems from a fateful incident that occurred on April 6, 1994. That was the missile attack on the Rwandan presidential aircraft that resulted in the death of Rwanda’s Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana, his colleague President Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, Habyarimana’s chief advisers, and the French crew.

This aerial assassination resulted in a genocide coordinated by the successor militant Hutu Rwandan government that cost the lives of some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. This was followed by a counter-genocide orchestrated by the Tutsi-led Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) government that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 mostly Hutu refugees in Rwanda and neighboring Zaire/Congo.

No one has even identified the assassins of the two presidents let alone sought to bring them to justice. There have been a number of national and international commissions that have looked into the causes for the Rwandan genocide. These have included investigations by the Belgian Senate, the French National Assembly, the United Nations, and the Organization of African Unity. None of these investigations have identified the perpetrators of the aerial assassination. In 1998, French Judge Jean-Louis Bruguiere launched an investigation of the aircraft attack. After interviewing witnesses in Switzerland, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Russia, Bruguiere apparently has enough evidence to issue an international arrest warrant for President Kagame. A former French Judge, Thierry Jean-Pierre, now a Member of the European Parliament, in an entirely separate and private investigation, came to the same conclusion that Kagame was behind the attack. The United States government must come to its senses, as it did with past intelligence assets like Sadaam Hussein, Alberto Fujimori, General Suharto, Ferdinand Marcos, and Manuel Noriega, and support a judicial accounting by Kagame. If it is proven that U.S. citizens were in any way involved in planning the assassination, they should also be brought to justice before the international war crimes tribunal.

Immediately after the attack on the presidential plane, much of the popular press in the United States brandished the theory that militant Hutus brought it down. I suggest that following some four years of research concentrating on the missile attack, there is no basis for this conclusion. In fact, I believe there is concrete evidence to show that the plane was shot down by operatives of the RPF. At the time, the RPF was supported by the United States and its major ally in the region, Uganda. Prior to the attack, the RPF leader, the current Rwandan strongman General Paul Kagame, received military training at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Many of Kagame’s subordinates received similar training, including instruction in the use of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) at the Barry Goldwater Air Force Range at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. It was Soviet-designed SAMs that were used to shoot down the Rwandan president’s airplane. By its own admission, the U.S. Defense Department provided official military training to the RPF beginning in January 1994, three months before the missile attack on the aircraft.

In testimony before the French inquiry commission, former French Minister for International Cooperation Bernard Debre insisted that the two SAM-16s used in the attack on the aircraft were procured from Ugandan military stocks and were “probably delivered by the Americans . . . from the Gulf War.” He was supported by two former heads of the French foreign intelligence service (DGSE) Jacques Dewatre and Claude Silberzahn, as well as General Jean Heinrich, the former head of French military intelligence (DRM). Former moderate Hutu Defense Minister James Gasana, who served under Habyarimana from April 1992 to July 1993, stated before the French inquiry that his government declined to purchase SAMs because they realized the RPF had no planes and, therefore, procurement of such weapons would have been a waste of money.

The contention by French government officials that the RPF was responsible for the aerial attack is supported by three former RPF intelligence officers who disclosed details of the operation to UN investigators. The three informants were rated as Category 2 witnesses on a 4-point scale where 1 is highly credible and 2 is “true but untested.” The RPF informants claim the plane was downed by an elite 10-member RPF team with the “assistance of a foreign government.” Some of the team members are apparently now deceased. A confidential UN report on the plane attack was delivered to the head of the UN War Crimes Tribunal, Judge Louise Arbour of Canada, but was never made public. In fact, Arbour terminated the investigation when details of the RPF’s involvement in the assassination became clear. The UN now denies such a report exists. Michael Hourigan, an Australian lawyer who first worked as an International War Crimes Tribunal investigator and then for the UN’s Office of Internal Oversight Services, confirmed that the initial war crimes investigation team uncovered evidence of the RPF’s involvement in the attack but their efforts were undercut by senior UN staff.

After the former RPF intelligence team revealed details of the attack, they were supported by yet another former RPF intelligence officer named Jean Pierre Mugabe. In a separate declaration, Mugabe contended that the assassination was directed by Kagame and RPF deputy commander-in-chief James Kabarebe. The RPF, according to Mugabe, campaigned extensively for the regional peace meeting in Dar es Salaam from which Habyarimana was returning when he was assassinated. Mugabe claimed the idea was to collect the top Hutu leadership on the plane in order to easily eliminate them in the attack.

Yet another defector from the RPF, Christophe Hakizabera, in a declaration to a UN investigation commission, states that the “foreign power” that helped the RPF shoot down the airplane was, in fact, Uganda. According to Hakizabera, the first and second assassination planning meetings were held in Uganda in the towns of Kabale and Mbarara, respectively. A third, in which Kagame was present, was held in March 1994 in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso.

As it did with the three other RPF defectors, the UN took no action as a result of this complaint. It appears, and this is supported by private conversations I have had with former UN officials, that some other party is calling the shots in the world body’s investigation of human rights violations in Africa.

The involvement of Uganda in the assassination tends to support the contention of the former French government ministers that the SAMs were provided to Uganda by the United States from captured Iraqi arms caches during Desert Storm. My own research indicates that these missiles were delivered to Uganda via a CIA-run arms depot outside of Cairo, Egypt. After the transfer, Uganda kept some of the missiles and launchers for its own armed forces and delivered the remainder to the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) and the RPF.

Other evidence pointing to an RPF role in the attack includes COMINT (communications intelligence) picked up by military units and civilian radio operators in Rwanda. A Rwandan Armed Forces COMINT listening station picked up a transmission on an RPF frequency, which stated “the target is hit.” This was reported to a Togolese member of the UN Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR). A Belgian amateur radio operator reported that after the attack, he heard someone on a frequency used by a Belgian PMC in Kigali state, “We killed Le Grand (Habyarimana).” The Belgian operator also stated that all Rwandan Armed Forces messages following the attack indicated the Rwandan army was in complete disarray n something that would not have been the case had the Rwandan government perpetrated the attack on its own president. Another source of COMINT was a French signals intelligence unit sent to Kigali from the French military base in Bangui, Central African Republic. According to French Judge Jean-Pierre, copies of French intercepts of RPF communications indicate, beyond a doubt, the culpability of the RPF in the attack on the aircraft.

Some formerly classified US State Department cables, which I received following a Freedom of Information Act request, reveal that the U.S. foreign policy establishment was of two minds over the April 6 attack. The U.S. Embassy in Burundi kept a surprisingly open mind about its theories about the missile attack, even suggesting a Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) role in it. Other U.S. diplomatic posts, most notably that in Kigali, seemed to follow the script that the aircraft was downed by hard-line Hutus who wanted to implement a well-planned genocide of Tutsis and moderate Hutus.

A May 25, 1994 Secret message from the Department of State to all African diplomatic posts also reports that “the RPF has summarily executed Hutu militia alleged to have been involved in the massacres and the RPF has admitted to such killings.” The same message states that “Rwandan government officials who controlled the airport” or “French military officials” recovered the downed presidential aircraft’s black box after securing the airport and removing the body of the French pilot from Habyarimana’s plane. However, according to officials I interviewed who were involved with UN air movements in the region, the black box was secretly transported to UN Headquarters in New York where it remains to this day.

Officially, the Rwandan government claims the black box went missing. According to the UN investigators, the black box was spirited away by UN officials from Kigali to New York via Nairobi. In addition, this shipment was known to US government officials. According to the UN sources, data from the black box is being withheld by the UN under pressure from our own government. The investigators also revealed that RPF forces controlled three major approaches to Kayibanda Airport on the evening of the attack and that European mercenaries, in the pay of the RPF and US intelligence, planned and launched the missile attack on the Mystere-Falcon. The CIA figured prominently in the UN investigation of the missile attack. According to the investigators, the search for the assassins ultimately led to a warehouse in Kanombe, near the airport. From this warehouse, during the afternoon of April 6, the missile launchers were assembled and readied for action by the mercenaries. As the UN investigation team was nearing its final conclusion and was prepared to turn up evidence indicating the warehouse had been leased by a Swiss company, said to be linked to U.S. intelligence, its mandate was swiftly terminated.

CONCLUSION

It is clear that the United States, contrary to comments made by its senior officials, including former President Clinton, played more of a role in the Rwandan tragedy than it readily admits. This involvement continued through the successive Rwandan and Ugandan-led invasions of neighboring Zaire/Congo. Speculation that Rwanda was behind the recent assassination of President Laurent Kabila in Congo (and rumors that the CIA was behind it) has done little to put the United States in a favorable light in the region. After all, the date of Kabila’s assassination on January 16 this year — was practically 40 years from the very day of the CIA-planned and executed assassination of Congolese leader Patrice Lumumba.

The quick pace at which Kabila’s son and successor Joseph Kabila visited the United States at the same time of Kagame’s presence, and his subsequent meetings with Corporate Council for Africa officials and Maurice Tempelsman (the majordomo of U.S. Africa policy), calls into question what the United States knew about the assassination and when it knew about it.

Also, particularly troublesome is a conclusion the CIA is said to have reached in an assessment written in January 1994, a few months before the genocide. According to key officials I have interviewed during my research, that analysis came to the conclusion that in the event that President Habyarimana was assassinated, the minimum number of deaths resulting from the mayhem in Rwanda would be 500 (confined mostly to Kigali and environs) and the maximum 500,000. Regrettably, the CIA’s higher figure was closer to reality.

Certain interests in the United States had reason to see Habyarimana and other pro-French leaders in central Africa out of the way. As recently written by Gilbert Ngijol, a former Assistant to the Special Representative of the Secretary General of the UN to Rwanda in 1994, the United States directly benefited economically from the loss of influence of French and Belgian mining interests in the central Africa and Great Lakes regions.

There is also reason to believe that a number of people with knowledge of Kagame’s plot against the presidential aircraft have been assassinated. These possibly include Tanzania’s former intelligence chief, Major General Imran Kombe, shot dead by policemen in northeastern Tanzania after he was mistaken for a notorious car thief. His wife maintains he was assassinated. Kombe had knowledge of not only the planned assassination of the Rwandan and Burundian presidents but a plot against Kenya’s President Moi and Zaire’s President Mobutu, as well. There is a belief that Roman Catholic Archbishop of Bukavu, Emmanuel Kataliko, was assassinated last October in Rome by members of a Rwandan hit team acting on orders from Kagame. Other Tutsi and Hutu leaders who oppose Kagame’s regime continue to flee Rwanda to the U.S. and France in fear of their lives. Rwanda’s figurehead Hutu President Pasteur Bizimungu was forced to resign last year under pressure from the only power in Rwanda, his then-Vice President, Paul Kagame. Deus Kagiraneza, a former intelligence officer in Kagame’s Military Intelligence Directorate (DMI), interim Prefect of the Ruhengeri province, and member of the Parliament, is now in exile in Belgium. He charges that Kagame’s top government and military are responsible for torturing and executing their political opponents. Kagiraneza maintains that the RPF has pursued such policies since the time of the 1990 invasion of Rwanda from Uganda.

It is beyond time for the Congress to seriously examine the role of the United States in the genocide and civil wars of central Africa, as well as the role that PMCs currently play in other African trouble spots like Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Equatorial Guinea, Angola, Ethiopia, and Cabinda. Other nations, some with less than stellar records in Africa, France and Belgium for example, have had no problem examining their own roles in Africa’s last decade of turmoil. At the very least, the United States, as the world’s leading democracy, owes Africa at least the example of a critical self-inspection.

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Prepared Statement of Keith Snow

Thank you Representative McKinney for organizing this very important forum.

I find it particularly remarkable that the diamond exports from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were some US$897 million in 1997. Now this is a “country” which was in a major war. And then in 1998, DRC ranked second in diamond production at 25.7 million carats. Again, a country in a brutal war where hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people and in fact I think it is millions of people — suffered the consequences through disease and despair and displacement and rape and hunger and robbery and often death.

Based on my research, this is a western syndicated proxy war, and like Sierra Leone, Angola and Sudan, it is war-as-cover for the rapid and unrestricted extraction of raw materials, and war as a means to totally disenfranchise the local people. Diamonds, gold, columbium tantalite, niobium, cobalt, manganese and petroleum, natural gas and timber and possibly uranium — are a few of the major spoils being pillaged behind the scenes as war ravages DRC and some of these minerals are almost solely found in DRC, especially cobalt, niobium, columbium tantalite.

Barrick Gold provides a convenient example using war-as-cover. According to testimony I took in western Uganda in November, Barrick Gold is operating in the Kilo Moto mines near Bunia. These mines are reportedly protected by UPDF. An Israeli General was awarded another Kilo Moto concession and UPDF and RCD operate others. And there is massive ivory poaching again protection rackets going on. Barrick Advisory Board member George Bush and his CIA connections certainly play into these mining deals and lay the groundwork a.k.a. slaughter if necessary to get the product. That includes long-time links to people like CIA station operative in Zaire Lawrence Devlin for example, and his associations with the Templesmans. Look at the CIA operations in Lubumbashi and you will probably find connections to the repression and massacres of students at the University of Lubumbashi in the early 1990s.

George Bush apparently telephoned Mobutu just prior to the first US supported invasion of Congo August 1996 on behalf of Swedish Financier Adolph Lundin to negotiate a deal over the Kilo Moto fields. And the US Presidential Election outcome of 1996 was completely irrelevant to the invasion of Zaire and the replacement of Mobutu. Remember that Kagame was in Washington about August 1996 checking his battle plans with the Pentagon. Mobutu’s days were numbered.

The US took all the right decisions to allow the Rwanda genocide to unfold. And Clinton’s comment that “we didn’t know what was going on at the time” couldn’t have been a bigger lie. Do you suppose it was coincidental that a Rwanda delegate rotated on to the security council early in 1994 and then worked with US representatives to block all subsequent attempts to deal appropriately with the unfolding slaughter?

The Lundin Group appears also to be involved in south Katanga, where they are into the Tenke Fungarume copper/cobalt concessions. This is near where America Mineral Fields International and Anglo American are operating as well. And these are a few of the many mining companies.

All these US military programs like IMET and E-IMET, ACRI and JCET are designed to consolidate US hegemony. UPDF and RCD and SPLA have conscripted child soldiers. They use sophisticated weapons not only the machetes so widely advertised by the media propaganda front of 1994 which sowed indifference and apathy in the US public. Troops have been trained by US green berets and US military personnel have worked to coordinate SPLA and RPF/UPDF/RCD military campaigns. This is according to Ugandan dissidents and/or Congolese refugees fleeing Congo and/or ex-patriots on the ground. And there are plenty of people who support these statements.

Weapons are reportedly shipped in through Entebbe. Again, people testified to seeing “American blacks” — quote Negroes unquote traveling in the area, both in Uganda and in Eastern DRC, but they are always very clandestine and they don’t mingle or talk to people. One refugee cited the locations of jungle camps where western he said American military advisors were training RCD or RPF or UPDF guerrillas in counterinsurgency and heavy artillery operations. Again, this was in November.

Note that the whole Tutsi contre-genocide against Hutus is off the radar screen of people in the US and that’s because the media has covered for the powerful interests and US agenda of consolidating power in the region by any means necessary. In fact, the RPF have actually “turned” Interahamwe to their service in doing the dirty work of eliminating any dissidents and insurgents and creating a situation defined by the media as incomprehensible tribal warfare.

It was reported to me that UPDF will disguise themselves as their enemies and attack villages to provide justification to return and sweep n a.k.a. brutalize or rape or pillage these villages. They have also reportedly used these tactics to substantiate their needs for international support weapons and funds and military expertise from US and UK backers, funds and equipment which was often diverted to the secret US SPLA war against Khartoum, for example.

But war doesn’t seem to be essential to the plan. Multinational

corporations– a very significant constellation of US companies and/or US citizens included, are everywhere stripping the resources, leaving pollution and disease and environmental disasters in their wakes. And you might probe into the whole classified nuclear waste transshipments programs.

Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Togo, Niger, Madagascar and Burkina Faso provide examples, being massively exploited, where military repression and structural adjustment and the concomitant destitution suffice to enable lucrative western control and exploitation. Zambia, Tanzania, Namibia, Botswana and Ghana are a few more examples where I have similarly witnessed profound human suffering amidst huge multinational profits and SAP. I mean, 120 years after the British invasion of western Zambia this is an area heavily burdened by refugee flows out of Angola and DRC and the concomitant insecurity of insurgent nomadic military forces — the people have absolutely no possessions. The schools don’t exist and even if they do there are no books and the kids are so destitute that they often can’t attend in any case. You can’t buy basic staples. I mean absolutely no food, no medicine, no drugs for malaria. Some 30% of people in Zambia don’t even know that malaria is caused by mosquitoes. But you can buy Coca-Cola and Sprite and Fanta virtually everywhere, but there are usually no basic foodstuffs, no books, no medical supplies. You cannot imagine the suffering until you live it yourself.

And it is no coincidence that one of the directors of Coca Cola now I think that’s a US company — is also a Director of Elf, and ELFs corrupt practices have been mildly exposed but very, very mildly.

These wars are prosecuted by local warlords, military dictators and their elite intelligence and security networks, typically armed, funded and trained by western intelligence and/or ex-military and/or private security companies. And these networks are particularly ruthless. However, again, they are directly associated with in-country western military and intelligence advisors and their programs. That includes Israel, US, British, German and French. But IMF/WB and OPIC and ADB funds continue to flow, and they support selective interests and projects and infrastructure which helps their related industries further expropriate the resources and the people and the institutions.

Uganda provides a good example. Uganda is at war on three fronts and a significant percentage of the IMF/WB funding which has gone into Uganda has been diverted for military objectives. The banks which fund Uganda through the international monetary institutions are often associated with the multinationals involved in the plunder of raw materials. Uganda has supported the SPLA war in southern Sudan, and I took testimony from Uganda dissidents who insist that US military advisors have worked with the SPLA and UPDF against Khartoum.

In Cameroon, Benin, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Niger in 1997, I found abundant evidence of unrestricted raw materials extraction by interests associated with the United States. The people of the oil-producing areas of the Niger River Delta are suffering horrendous atrocities. Again, on the Niger border with Burkina — famine, disease, despair, political repression for the most trifling reasons — and right next door there is a Barrick Gold mining operation. And Sumitomo and the Keidanren (Zaibatsu) out of Japan are all involved. And people in these (African) countries know what is going on, but they can’t tell their stories because most westerners are completely caught up in the mental illness of colonialism and imperialism, which disallows the simple truth to be seen. And those who tell their stories are often brutalized or disappeared.

In Zimbabwe, the issue of land and elections and Mugabe’s intransigence aside, the lasting repercussions of the Mugabe “five brigade” genocide against the Ndebele people in Matebelelands North and South and the Midlands provinces are heartbreaking. Here was this scorched earth campaign from 1981 to 1987 where hundreds and hundreds of thousands perished, where food was used as a weapon and rape prevailed, and the United States diverted its eyes. And the media knew about it but the media diverted its eyes. And this is all very current stuff in Zimbabwe. The 1990s was more of the same in a more subtle form. And the Ndebele people have suffered untold injustice and terror.

Meanwhile, there was plenty of mining and tobacco farming going on in Zimbabwe and the weapons for Mugabe’s dirty little secrets came from where? The IMF and WB funded Mugabe, no matter, throughout his tenure and right up into the late 1990s. Again, these are big banks like Chase Manhattan and First Boston and Citicorp and the Morgan Banks — and their directors sit on some of the western media boards and they dictate relief operations at a certain level. And then of course there are all these supranational multinational corporations like Asea Brown Baveri (ABB) and Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell and Lonrho and Citibank and Bechtel. I mean, Bechtel gets away with raping the system in Boston the 10 or 12 billion dollar overruns in the Harbor Tunnel project never mind their tight CIA and US government interconnections, policy interventions of dictations, and the orchestration of coups, assassinations, disappearances and wars.

Lonrho of course is Buckingham Palace and I contend that very powerful US citizens are tied in through companies like Brown and Root and Halliburton to Lonrho and Lonrho interests. And please recall that Vice President Cheney is a former Halliburton executive. And Lonrho has a lock on British media. And it is no coincidence that Lonrho has the most elegant and modern skyscraper in downtown Nairobi.

And all this is hidden by the US media. Even the village idiot, if he opens his eyes, can see that the directors of the media corporations are the same directors of those corporations raping Africa. But too many people have a paycheck to worry about. And that includes humanitarian organizations and the United Nations and the OAU and the International Criminal Tribunal on Rwanda.

Special torture centers and death squads and massive repression of the population are the rule in Togo, Cameroon, Kenya, Gabon, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso, and were so in Zaire. And these people–Eyadema, Biya, Bongo, Obasanjo, Abacha, Babangida, Mobutu, Compaore, Rawlings, Banda, Kaunda, Moi, Habyarimana, Kagame, Museveni, Garang, Ratsiraka–they provide the environment for pillage, and they are duly rewarded, with power, with all the perks.

Charles Taylor was incarcerated in Charlestown, Massachusetts circa 1983 or 1984 and he is the only person, I believe, in the history of the Charlestown jail to have been broken out. Apparently the records no longer exist of his stay there. And now he is President in Liberia?

And then you have the whole misery industry, which profits from the wars and repression and population displacement which their affiliated institutions and their funding banks and materials-providing multinationals create. Again, you don’t need a Ph.D. to figure out that thousands of highly paid western AID workers would be out of a job if there were peace in Sudan. And Toyota wouldn’t sell all those shiny 4-WD SUVs. And who would buy the US made weapons? And all that business of feeding and clothing and interning the refugees would be lost by these multinationals who get huge tax write-offs and subsidies and whose products are purchased by USAID or other government agencies. And some of these relief organizations also have close ties to the corporate media executives.

So I see it as a policy of depopulation in Africa. Because what I am talking about is access. That’s all. Access to the animals. Access to the game parks and trophy fishing. Access to the minerals. Access to the cheap and replenishable labor pool. Access to uninformed populations to dump inferior and toxic and outdated products on. Access for military adventurism and special forces training and psyops operations. Access to biological and pharmaceutical testing grounds. Access to markets. And while at times it seems contradictory, at times it is, but it’s all completely unethical, entirely arrogant and racist. It is driven purely by greed. And the profound human suffering is totally unnecessary.

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Prepared Statement of Janine Farrell Roberts

MAURICE TEMPELSMAN: THE CONVERGENCE OF POLICY AND PROFIT IN PRIVATE How US Foreign Policy over decades was influenced by the Diamond Cartel.

By author of Book “Blood Stained Diamonds,” Janine Farrell Roberts The Secret Story Behind Blood Diamonds

May I first briefly introduce myself. I hold degrees in Sociology and Theology and have authored several books written about Australian Aborigines and their civil rights struggle, which were launched by their leaders. For many years I was funded by a coalition of US and European church to work on human rights frontiers internationally.

This work led me to De Beers – after it clashed with an Aboriginal community. The more I worked internationally the more I discovered about its human rights violations. I have now been researching and writing on De Beers and the diamond trade for twenty years during which time I have made several films – including: “The Diamond Empire”, a feature length” Frontline” since suppressed by WGBH due to pressure from De Beers. The owners of Doubleday also commissioned a major work from me on diamonds – only to drop it at the very last moment as they wrote “rich and important people” did not want it to come out.

De Beers is nothing if not secretive In the course of my investigation, De Beers banned me from its South African diamond mines where I was the guest of the National Union of Mineworkers (but I was smuggled in). Here I witnessed in De Beers’s mines horrific conditions with wages paid at one-third of the official union minimum and in very hazardous conditions. I also witnessed considerable natural resources being hidden from the SA Government. I went also to India and witnessed children as young as 8 cutting and polishing diamonds in workshops mostly supplied by De Beers through its favored merchants, working in what is defined as a form of slavery. The wages were slashed this year from 40c to 25c a diamond causing riots. Workers get one dollar a day for cutting romantic gems. India cuts 55% by value of the world’s gem diamonds.

De Beers tried to stop my film in the Canadian NW Territories diamond fields – but the Sierra Club and the Unions made it happen. On 5th Avenue, merchants were phoned telling them not to speak to me “as I worked with Blacks in Australia to make life difficult for De Beers.” I was also the keynote speaker at the first post apartheid conference of Southern African mineworkers where I was funded by the World Council of Churches.

I have been told that a major reason for some of my difficulties is the fear publishers have of a certain Maurice Tempelsman, the former companion of Jackie Onassis who in 1998 was reported to be developing a relationship with Secretary of State Albright. He is a leading international diamond merchant of unique power and influence – often he has helped shape US foreign policy in directions that favour De Beers. I have extensively researched his work. Much of this is in my forthcoming book “Blood Stained Diamonds.”

I have been asked to talk about Tempelsman’s role in the confluence of public policy and private profit that happens in private. He is an excellent example. I have time only to summarise my findings.

Why was he uniquely important in the De Beers? In the 1940s De Beers was indicted by the US Justice Department for price fixing under the Sherman Act. The US also believed De Beers had rationed the supply of tool diamonds to the US during the Second World War severely damaging the war effort. It was determined never to let this happen again, and legislation was thus passed to set up a national diamond stockpile. De Beers needed a way to ensure it was the source of this stockpile despite being indicted. It sought a middleman to do the deals with the US. Early in the 1950s Tempelsman met with the Oppenheimers who rule De Beers and became this middleman. He was uniquely supplied with millions of diamonds to sell the US as its strategic reserve. Most of these diamonds came from the Congo.

THE CONGO

When Lumumba, Congo’s first elected leader, spoke of using the Congo’s resources to benefit the Congo. De Beers feared it would lose access to the one-third of world’s diamond supply in the Congo – as would also Tempelsman. Shortly after this, the CIA facilitated Lumumba’s assassination. Evidence on this came before the Church Intelligence Commission. Immediately after Lumumba’s death, the Acting Prime Minister of the Congo, Adoula announced support for a very major Tempelsman diamond deal, telegramming this to President Kennedy. The historian Richard Mahoney claimed that the Adoula regime was receiving funds from Tempelsman. A State Department memo headed “Congo Diamond Deal” stated “The State Department has concluded that it is in the political interest of the US to implement this proposal.” (2 August 1961)

Immediately after Mobutu came to power, Tempelsman became an even bigger player in the Congo – recruiting his own staff from those CIA staffers that Mobutu most favored that put him in power. Mobutu also at this time gave Tempelsman, as a “Christmas Gift,” rich mineral reserves. According to Tempelsman’s staff we interviewed, they had a wonderful time helping to run the Congo. One of the first acts by Tempelsman was to facilitate the return of the Oppenheimers to the Congo – and to secure funding for Mobutu. He succeeded in persuading the White House to secretly buy a vast number of diamonds for the US strategic reserve – at a time when Administration officials were protesting that the reserve was over full. The reason for this deal given in secret US government memos was to support Mobutu and his partner Adoula. This Tempelsman plan made much profit for him and for De Beers.

A State Department Cable of 23 December 1964 warned about the need of secrecy over this Mobutu diamond and South African uranium deal because; “it could outrage the moderate Africans we are trying to calm down.” It suggest South African Foreign Minister Muller would understand the need for secrecy since the US was “doing a job” in the Congo that South Africa could not do. This covert support for Mobutu gave the US a gross excess in the strategic diamond stockpile that was still being sold off in 1997.

In 1967 the State Department reported; “Tempelsman is playing an increasingly central role as GDRC (Congo’s) technical advisor and mediator.” But these deals and other deals done throughout the following decades with a corrupt Mobutu government left the Congolese people in absolute poverty.

GHANA

In the late 1950s democracy arrived in Africa with the election of President Nkrumah – who thought Black Africans should not have to sell diamonds to an apartheid company – so took Ghana’s diamonds from the cartel. A short while later, the State Department wrote a furious letter to Maurice Tempelsman saying that his office, by using an unguarded phone line, had betrayed the identity of the plotters against Nkrumah and the identity of the CIA Head of Station. The plotters seemingly were communicating to the White House via Tempelsman’s office. (Memorandum for the President from WW Rostow, 24 September 1961) Tempelsman clearly had advanced knowledge of this coup attempt. Shortly afterwards President Kennedy decided not to “downgrade” (his word) Tempelsman for this error.

SIERRA LEONE

Tempelsman worked out a new diamond contract for President Stevens – under which Tempelsman got 27% of the country’s diamonds – setting up an independent cutting factory – and De Beers bought shares in it. However it was not set up to compete effectively.

I have gathered ample evidence that historically Sierra Leone has been grossly exploited by fraudulent De Beers’ practices which I would be happy to give during question time.

ANGOLA

In recent years Tempelsman has been trying to use US money and support to set up Savimbi of UNITA in the diamond trade with both De Beers the US support. On the side, he has also been setting up his own diamond cutting factory – here as in his other African cutting plants on terms that are likely to stop Africa getting a fully commercial cutting industry… a De Beers aim.
Tempelsman in 1996 persuaded the Assistant Secretary of State George E. Moose to give him a letter suggesting that the US would finance Tempelsman’s plans. On October 10th 1996 he met with Tony Lake the National Security Advisor and with Lake’s deputy, Shawn McCormick – and gained their support for Tempelsman’s plans. In May 1997 the US Ambassador for Angola, Steinbach met with Savimbi – to back the Tempelsman plan. This plan included UNITA keeping its diamond mines – and selling them via De Beers. Again US foreign policy was being shaped to benefit De Beers.

TEMPELSMAN’S INDEPENDENCE OF DE BEERS

Tempelsman frequently poses as an independent diamond merchant, even as a rival to De Beers. This has enabled him to do such things as to advise the President of Namibia on his negotiations with De Beers. But if he were truly such, he would lose his diamond supplies from De Beers as have other diamond merchants who tried to rival De Beers. He has never lost these supplies. He is rumoured in the trade as having one of the very largest of the diamond “sights” supplied by De Beers. It is easy for De Beers to pay him secretly. They simply put more and better stones into the box they send him. The US customs are unable to check if this has happened, as they do not the experts on staff.

CONCLUSION

Maurice Tempelsman served the De Beers diamond cartel by promoting foreign policy decisions that favoured its access to and control of African diamond fields. This lead to the US covertly supporting undemocratic and corrupt regimes in Africa to the great detriment of the African people.

Information on Blood Diamonds Suppressed?

Why did WGBH suppress its Frontline program “The Diamond Empire,” refusing to sell it to many who asked for it. The owners of Doubleday were later scared off from publishing the “sensational, important and accomplished” (their words) human rights book “Glitter and Greed: The story of Blood Stained Diamonds.” They wrote after putting promoting the book as due to come out in 3 months, saying that rich and powerful people were against it, and although we may win any legal battle, it is not worth the cost of such a fight.

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MARCH 28, 2005
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http://www.businessweek.com/custserv/letters.ed.htm
Letter to the editor – Business Week

To Help Africa, Return Dictators’ Blood Money Instead of an “African Marshall Plan,” Britain, France, and Belgium should stop dragging their feet and follow the example of the good people of Switzerland (“Don’t just throw money at the world’s poor,” Economic Viewpoint, Mar. 7). Namely, they should return to African nations billions of stolen dollars stored in bank accounts across these countries by the Mobutus, Eyedemas, Abachas, Savimbis, Babangidas, and thousands of other Africans. This money, if returned, could go a long way toward obliterating any need for economic aid to African nations and would save the British Exchequer and Chancellor Gordon Brown hours of financial engineering with long-term bonds.

Deebii Nwiado
Gentofte, Denmark

The new African initiative is an admission by the European socialists of their failed policies toward Africa since World War II. They are directly responsible for giving Africa to blood-thirsty Amins, Nyereres, Machels, and Mugabes. These AK-47 dictators put large chunks of public and private economies into their own pockets, while the countries and people become poorer and poorer. Until the European socialists admit that they have blood on their faces, no new initiative is going to work.

Paul Sabino
Benoni, South Africa

The Nation (Nairobi)
Kenya: Diplomat Traces DR Ouko’s Last Steps With Moi in the U.S.

Kevin Kelly

22 February 2004

Washington, DC — The search for the killers of Dr Robert John Ouko takes centre-stage again tomorrow afternoon with the hearing by the Parliamentary Select Committee investigating the matter listening to its first testimony.

The first witness to have his evidence heard by the PSC, which will be sitting at Parliament Buildings at 2 pm tomorrow, will be Mr Barrack Mbajah, a younger brother of the slain Foreign Affairs minister.

As Kenyans eagerly await the much-touted insights into the murder that Mr Mbajah has been promising, in America, Mr Herman Cohen, a top US government official responsible for Africa when President Moi and Foreign Minister Dr Ouko visited Washington before his death, has spoken for the first time about the “famous” trip.

Mr Cohen, the then US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the George Bush (Snr) administration, said Dr Ouko did not have any special contacts with US government officials. No red carpets were rolled out for Dr Ouko either.

But Mr Cohen found it strange that Dr Ouko, as Foreign Affairs Minister, was absent at a meeting he held with Mr Moi during the January 1990 visit. However, Mr Cohen said, there was no sign of tension in the Kenyan delegation.

Mr Moi had visited Washington for the annual Prayer Breakfast – an event that brings together several Heads of State for prayers.

Mr Cohen was the highest-ranking US official who held a meeting with Mr Moi during the visit. He had attended the breakfast meeting at Moi’s invitation.

At that time, some members of the US Congress were pressing for stronger action on the part of the Bush administration in response to human rights abuses by the Moi government. They also demanded the establishment of a multi-party democracy in Kenya.

During an interview with the Sunday Nation last week, Mr Cohen said the Bush team was trying to persuade President Moi that his detention of dissidents was bad for Kenya’s image.

A story went round Washington following Dr Ouko’s death that he may have met at the White House with President Bush during the visit.

Mr Cohen said Mr Bush and Dr Ouko were friends who met when they were both working for the United Nations, adding that Mr Bush cherished old friends.

There was also speculation that Dr Ouko may have called the White House to announce that he was in town and to request a few minutes with Mr Bush. “Mr Bush did this sort of thing all the time,” Mr Cohen told the Sunday Nation. The State Department did not take such one-on-ones as important since no policy matters would be discussed. However, Mr Cohen said he had no proof the Ouko-Bush meeting actually took place.

An official at the Bush Presidential Library in Houston, Texas, Mr Robert Holzweiss, said there was no record of such a meeting, but that there was a possibility that a brief handshake-type encounter might have occurred and not be included in the Bush archives. But any meeting of more than a minute or two would likely be recorded, Mr Holzweiss said.
But President Moi did meet with Mr Bush – briefly and as part of a large group – during that visit in 1990. Records of a Moi-Bush meeting at the Washington Hilton Hotel on February 1, 1990 are included in the Bush Presidential Library.

Also in attendance were US Secretary of State James Baker, White House Chief of Staff John Sununu, National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft, US Senator Peter Domenici of New Mexico and evangelist Billy Graham. In addition to Mr Moi, three other heads of state were at the meeting – the presidents of Bangladesh, Burundi, and El Salvador. The meeting lasted from 7.28 am to 7.42 am. .

Former US Ambassador to Kenya Smith Hempstone said he had tried to find out if anything unusual had occurred while Mr Moi and Dr Ouko were in Washington but did not get anything. He said he did not know if Dr Ouko met Mr Bush on that occasion.
But shortly after Ouko’s death, Mr Hempstone received an undated photograph from the US Chief of Protocol showing Mr Bush and Dr Ouko standing together, possibly on the steps of the US Capitol.

The Chief of Protocol apparently didn’t realise that Ouko was dead, Mr Hempstone said, adding that he was unable to get further information about the photo.
According to Mr Hempstone, it was just a coincidence that Dr Ouko and Mr Moi visited Washington shortly before Ouko’s death. He said he knew of nothing odd that occurred in Washington during their stay.

During the judicial commission of inquiry into the murder of Dr Ouko, one of the witnesses told of an incident during the Washington visit in which a senior cabinet minister close to President Moi referred sarcastically to Dr Ouko as “Mr President”.

The minister, a key member of the delegation, was said to have been unhappy at the preferential treatment that Dr Ouko had received from President Bush during the visit. It was felt that deference due to President Moi was being paid instead to the Foreign Affairs Minister.

Mr Mbajah, who went into exile shortly after the Commission of Inquiry into Dr Ouko’s death began in October 1990, recently returned to Kenya and has publicly claimed that he knows who killed the minister.

He had, however, specified that he would need state security claiming his life was in danger. On Friday, two police officers were assigned to Mr Mbajah to provide him with round-the-clock security until he completes his testimony to the PSC chaired by Kisumu Town East MP Gor Sunguh.

According to the Clerk of the National Assembly, Mr Samuel Ndindiri, three other witnesses, including Dr Ouko’s widow Christobel, will testify immediately after Mr Mbajah.
The other two are Dr Ouko’s former house help, Ms Selina Were, and a man identified only as Mr Angiya.

Mr Ndindiri told reporters on Friday that Ms Were’s testimony is expected on Tuesday, Mrs Ouko’s on Wednesday and Mr Angiya’s evidence will be adduced on Thursday.
So far, only the above-mentioned four witnesses have been summoned to appear before Mr Sunguh’s team. Keiyo South MP Nicholas Biwott, who was mentioned adversely during the Commission of Inquiry 14 years ago, last year wrote to the committee expressing an interest in appearing before it.

Another person eager to testify before the committee is the former Scotland Yard detective who led investigations into the Ouko murder, Mr John Troon. Mr Troon told our sister publication, the Daily Nation, that ever since the parliamentary inquiry into the murder was announced, he had been waiting for a call from the Kenya Government to hear his views.
“I would like to remind everyone that, technically, I am still in the witness box in Kenya,” he said.

“I was never released from giving my statement, nor was I ever cross-examined in what I had to say. If the parliamentary inquiry insists that it is investigating new evidence I must presume that part of that new evidence is the recommendations for further inquiry I made in my report”.

The former detective, who now works for a bank, expressed scepticism about the PSC inquiry, calling it “a whitewash.”

Said Mr Troon about the current investigations in connection with his evidence: “To my knowledge, none of those recommendations is being carried out. I remain prepared to assist in the inquiry if formally approached by the Kenyan High Commission here. But it is my belief that the latest investigation is something of a whitewash”.

He continued: “I am beginning to wonder if the new government even wants to hear what I have to say.”

Additional reporting by MWANGI GITHAHU

Pat Robertson – Islam Not A Religion

Tea Party Billboard Features Pres Obama With Hitler & Lenin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEp_Au6Nu0w

CHo0ZE | June 12, 2010

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Rand Paul Joins Ron Paul & Sarah Palin For The Tea Party Summit!
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Ron Paul, Sarah Palin & The Tea Party Movement pt.2
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Freedom Watch 12/6/10: Ron Paul, Rand Paul and Sarah Palin P3-3
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Newt Gingrich Defends Sarah Palin’s “Death Panel” Comments

Iowa Tea Party Billboard Compares Obama To Hitler, Lenin
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/13/obama-hitler-tea-party-billboard_n_645203.html

Published July 13, 2010

| Associated Press

July 13: A billboard ordered and paid for by the North Iowa Tea Party shows President Obama, Adolf Hitler, left, and Vladimir Lenin, on South Federal Avenue in Mason City, Iowa.

DES MOINES, Iowa — A billboard created by an Iowa tea party group that compares President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler and Vladimir Lenin is drawing sharp criticism — even from fellow tea party activists who have condemned it as offensive and a waste of money.

The North Iowa Tea Party began displaying the billboard in downtown Mason City last week. The sign shows large photographs of Obama, Nazi leader Hitler and communist leader Lenin beneath the labels “Democrat Socialism,” “National Socialism,” and “Marxist Socialism.”

Beneath the photos is the phrase, “Radical leaders prey on the fearful & naive.”

The co-founder of the roughly 200-person group said the billboard was intended to send an anti-socialist message. But Bob Johnson admitted Tuesday that the message may have gotten lost amid the images of fascist and communist leaders.

“The purpose of the billboard was to draw attention to the socialism. It seems to have been lost in the visuals,” Johnson said. “The pictures overwhelmed the message. The message is socialism.” He said he didn’t know of any plans to remove the sign.

But others in the tea party movement criticized the sign.

“That’s just a waste of money, time, resources and it’s not going to further our cause,” said Shelby Blakely, a leaders of the Tea Party Patriots, a national group. “It’s not going to help our cause. It’s going to make people think that the tea party is full of a bunch of right-wing fringe people, and that’s not true.”

Blakely also expressed outrage at linking Obama to Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany who oversaw the killing of 6 million Jews and whose invasions of neighboring countries led to World War II.

“When you compare Obama to Hitler, that to me does a disservice to the Jews who both survived and died in the Holocaust and to the Germans who lived under Nazi regime rule,” Blakely said.

John White, an Iowa coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, said that he can understand the North Iowa group’s perception that Obama is “Hitler-esque,” but he thinks the billboard is offensive and unproductive. White said that he planned to discuss the matter with national tea party officials.

“I fear they may end up in some kind of trouble over it, because it’s basically slanderous,” White said. “I don’t know that it’s the message we want to send. I’d much rather see billboards that say ‘Remember in November. Get Out and Vote.”‘

The billboard is owned by Waitt Outdoor of Omaha, Neb. Waitt general manager, Kent Beatty, said the company didn’t have a problem with the message.

“We believe in freedom of speech,” Beatty said. “It doesn’t reflect our views, necessarily.”

The White House declined to comment on the sign.

One person who welcomed the billboard was Dean Genth, a Democratic activist from Mason City, a city of 30,000 people just south of the Minnesota border, who said he thinks the sign lays bare the views of tea party supporters.

“I welcome them to continue to spew that kind of stuff because I think it’s going to do a lot of good for the good Democrats around the state,” Genth said.

Sarah Palin – Obama Wants To Kill My Baby

TheYoungTurks | August 07, 2009

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Bill O’Reilly: Pat Robertson Attacking Islam
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carrieismywoman | November 12, 2009

just like i slammed Bill Maher for attacking all religions or calling America dumb, the same applies here, anyone who casts such a wide net over such a large group pf people is ignorant.

ANTICHRIST AGENT BILLY GRAHAM EXPOSED 33 DEGREE MASON ONE WORLD RELIGION PART 1/4

Billy Graham and Pat Robertson have Masonic Ties

mhfm1 | January 28, 2009

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Abortion, Rock Music, and Freemasonry Exposed(Final Edition).This video shows:

– that rock music played backwards contains hidden messages

– the wicked inner practices of the Freemasonic Lodge

– that the Freemasons regard Catholicism as their number one enemy

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Bx29MRL4L6c – On Larry King Live

Constitution Debate: International Convention

standardgroupkenya | July 11, 2010

Constitution Debate: International Convention

Yesterday, we told you about Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Conservative Christian In Name Only. Pat Robertson has joined the Kool-Aid drinking Antichrist Obama lovefest on Larry King Live:

KING: Let’s go to Virginia Beach, Virginia. Our old friend Pat Robertson, the founder of the Christian Coalition of America, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network. what is your reaction to this historic event?
REV. PAT ROBERTSON, FOUNDER, CHRISTIAN COALITION: Larry, as you know, I ran for president. I must say, this is the most amazing campaign that I think we’ve seen in our life time or maybe in this century. Obama is absolutely brilliant. I would like to make a prediction. He can one of the great presidents of the United States if he doesn’t get pulled too far off of center and gets over into some of the things the American people don’t want. If he governs the way he said he is going to do, as I say, he has the smarts and the charisma to pull this nation together and be an outstanding president.
KING: Reverend, Sarah Palin Is the focus of a lot of political speculation. She was asked about her prospects of 2012 earlier today. Watch.
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GOV. SARAH PALIN (R), ALASKA: Don’t know what the heck is going to happen in 2012? Again, just very anxious to get back to work in Anchorage and in Juneau, making sure the people of Alaska are well served.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You are notably not ruling out 2012?
PALIN: Well, right now I cannot imagine running for national office in 2012. I say that, of course, coming on the heels of an outcome that I certainly did not anticipate and had not hoped for. But this being a chapter now that is closed and realizing it is time to unite. All Americans need to get together and help with this new administration being ushered in.

KING: What’s her future, Pat?

ROBERTSON: I think she could play a very significant role in the Republican party. The Republicans are going to be looking for leadership, somebody like Ronald Reagan to lead them out of the wilderness. Sarah might be able to do it, but she has to have a great deal of coaching on foreign affairs and on national policy. She was just not ready for this job. She electrified the audience. She mobilized the base. She did what they wanted her to do. But nevertheless she wasn’t quite ready for the prime time.
KING: Exit polls show that Obama won 32 percent of white evangelicals between ages 18 and 29. That’s ten points better than he did with older evangelicals. What do you make of that?

ROBERTSON: I think the young people are very idealistic. They thought that he is the combination of the Messiah and Moses? They wanted to follow him, really. That is a terrible burden to put on somebody, because if he can’t deliver — they are going to set very high expectations. It is going to be tough for him to live up to those expectations.

KING: Pat, we will do it again soon. We sorry on the shortened time. We ran into a block tonight. We want to have you again very soon. Reverend Pat Robertson. What would Martin Luther King Jr. say about this historic election? His son, Martin Luther King III, is going to tell us after the break.

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Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama and the Democrats, telling a gathering of “tea party” activists that America is ripe for another revolution.
Noting his party’s dismal showing in elections since Obama moved into the White House a year ago with talk of hope and promises of change, Palin asked the gathering: “How’s that hope-y, change-y stuff workin’ out for you?”
Her audience waved flags and erupted in cheers during multiple standing ovations as the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee gave the keynote address Saturday at the first national convention of the “tea party” coalition. It’s an antiestablishment, grass-roots network motivated by anger over the growth of government, budget-busting spending and Obama’s policies.

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US support for reforms will go on, says envoy

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America will continue to support civic education on the Proposed Constitution, US Ambassador Michael Ranneberger has said.
The envoy said civic education on the proposed laws had a big impact on the reform agenda.
His statement comes barely a day after US congressman Christopher Smith accused President Obama of failing to observe neutrality in the Kenyan debate on the Proposed Constitution.
Mr Ranneberger, however, declined to respond to claims by the New Jersey Republican Party member that America was interfering with Kenya’s reform process by pumping millions of American taxpayers money into the process.
Speaking yesterday at Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s residence in Nairobi, Ranneberger said the constitution review process was moving in the right direction and denied America was directly funding ‘Yes’ campaigns.
“Obama has made it clear that he supports the reform process, not the referendum result. And that is what we are doing,” he said.
Signs of desperation
In a report, Smith, a Ranking Member of the House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, said the US taxpayer-funded agreements had been awarded to NGOs to work up support for the Proposed Constitution against America’s expected principle of neutrality.
He claimed the US had pumped Sh50 million into ‘Yes’ campaigns.
In response, Raila said the allegations were outrageous and asked them to produce proof. “The reform process has not only been supported by the US, but also Europe,” he said.
Raila said the allegations were signs of desperation from people who have sensed defeat in the August 4 referendum. “They want an excuse after the referendum when they will say they would have won were it not for interference,” he said.
‘Yes’ in new strategy to win votes

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President Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga have taken firm grip of the ‘Yes’ campaign and implemented changes to drum up support for the Green team.
The two Principals in the Grand Coalition Government moved all key operations of the Green campaign from the ‘Yes’ Secretariat to President Kibaki’s Harambee House office, and Prime Minister Raila’s Office at the Treasury.
The action appeared aimed at ending the growing splits at the ‘Yes’ Secretariat, where
staff even plotted the removal of one of the directors Mr Peter Kagwanja on Wednesday, for allegedly frustrating operations.
They claimed that he abandoned them without money, and moved operations to the Office of the President.
As part of the new ‘Yes’ strategy, the Government is also showcasing its reform agenda to push for a ‘Yes’ vote following a meeting of officials from Agenda 4 commissions established by the National Accord, yesterday. The team also launched an SMS campaign.
This will be supplemented by a third strategy, built around a series of press conferences by political figures and a number of professional groups.
US ambassador Michael Ranneberger was at Prime Minister Raila Odinga’s home in Karen, Thursday where he vowed not to abandon civic education on the Proposed Constitution despite criticism. [PHOTO: STAFFORD ONDEGO/ STANDARD]
The campaign, co-convened by ministers Kiraitu Murungi and Anyang’ Nyong’o, will be executed by former Trade Minister Mukhisa Kituyi and Salim Lone, one of PM Raila’s communication advisors.
Yesterday, Dr Kituyi addressed the economic transformation the new constitution would herald, through devolved power, and resources at the grassroots. Mutula addressed the second press conference.
Speaking at the first Referendum Conference in Nairobi, at the meeting for Agenda 4 commissions, the chairman of the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission, Bethwel Kiplagat, said there was need for leaders to meet to show unity before the August 4 referendum.
Officials from the Interim Independent Electoral Commission, Interim Independent Boundaries Commission, the National Cohesion and Integration Commission, and the Committee of Experts attended the meeting.
Eldoret tour
Mutula said he was willing to meet Ruto, with whom they shared a table at the Serena talks that created the Coalition Government, and in the Parliamentary Select Committee, that guides Agenda 4 processes.
The minister said the new law would ensure an elected president enjoys legitimacy, as well us giving Kenyans a chance to know their Vice- President before the elections .
The President is expected to visit Eldoret, Ruto’s backyard. Unconfirmed reports said Raila is also expected to attend the function today.
Should the Prime Minister attend the meeting at 64 Stadium in Eldoret, it would mark his return to the campaign trail since his discharge from Nairobi Hospital, last week.
The new strategy by the President comes barely two weeks after he convened a joint PNU/ODM meeting attended by 140 MPs.
The meeting developed an 11-point strategy that, among others, divided the campaigns teams into national, county and constituency levels.
The ‘Yes’ campaign has been slow to gain momentum, even after leaders from central Kenya recently met in Limuru and unanimously endorsed Deputy Prime Minister to Uhuru Kenyatta to take charge.
The ‘Yes’ team appears to be working overdrive to cover areas reached by their ‘No’ rivals in Ukambani, Kajiado, Narok, North and South Rift, Kisii, and Kuria. And the team has also engaged in an expedition to net dissenters into their fold.
The biggest catch so far is Environment Minister John Michuki. “I’m with you,” Michuki told the President, as he planted a green cap onto his head at the President’s rally in his (Michuki’s) Murang’a backyard.
Who is in charge?
Back at the ‘Yes’ Secretariat some officials told The Standard that most creditors who supplied campaign materials were yet to be paid, and those campaigning for ‘Yes’ from ODM and PNU were getting credit notes directly from the President and the PM’s offices.
“You can get in touch with Prof Kagwanja (PNU) at Harambee House or Janet Ongera (ODM) at Treasury. Nothing is happening here,” claimed one of the officials.
But Ms Ongera denied there was a crisis. “The hiccups we had have been sorted out, and we have now hit the road. We are still paying suppliers and the secretariat is working,” said Ongera. Staff at the secretariat last week signed a memo resolving they wanted Kagwanja replaced. On Wednesday, some of the workers even threatened to leave.
It emerged that top Government officials had taken over the co-ordination of the ‘Yes’ campaign. “Civil servants are asking their friends to supply campaign materials, abandoning those who had supplied through the secretariat and haven’t been paid,” said an official at KICC office. MPs Edick Anyanga, and Wilfred Ombui complained that funds are not flowing as they expected.
“There is need for the ‘Yes’ team to wake up and stop taking the campaigns for granted,” said Mr Ombui.
“We have been left on our own by those appointed to co-ordinate campaigns,” said Njeru Kanyamba, one of the coordinators.

62pc of Kenyans favour new law: Poll

Strategic Research chief executive officer Ceasar Handa address a news conference at the PanAfric Hotel July 16, 2010 during the release of a Referendum Poll that showed that 62pc of Kenyans will vote in favour of the proposed constitution, while 20pc will reject it at the referendum on August 4. Photo/FREDRICK ONYANGO
By ANTHONY KARIUKI, amkariuki@ke.nationmedia.com
Posted Friday, July 16 2010 at 14:29

Sixty two per cent of Kenyans will vote in favour of the proposed constitution, the latest opinion poll shows.

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The poll released Friday by Strategic Research showed that twenty per cent will reject the document while 18 per cent are indecisive.

“When we ask them why they vote Yes yet they want amendments they say the draft is better than the current constitution,” said Strategic Research chief executive officer Caesar Handa at PanAfric Hotel, Nairobi Friday.

The indecisive lot is significant number, who could sway the vote either way were they to make up their minds before the referendum on August 4, 19 days away.

The poll shows that the Yes side has increased its fortunes with five percentage points up from 57pc in the previous survey conducted by pollster Synovate in June.

The poll results will come as a boost to the Yes camp that suffered a blow after Prime Minister Raila Odinga, a key campaigner, was hospitalised early July and had to take a break from the referendum rallies.

The Yes team has conceded that Mr Odinga’s absence has considerably slowed its momentum and his energy is missing from their campaigns.

The Yes side has most supporters in Mr Odinga’s Nyanza stronghold with 83.5pc of the vote while Rift Valley province has the bulk of No backers at 31.5pc.

Higher Education minister William Ruto, who is leading the No campaign, draws most of his supporters from the Rift Valley.

Abstain from vote

The poll, conducted from July 9- 14, reports that 74pc of Kenyans are likely to vote at the referendum set for August 4 while 13.2pc reported that they were very unlikely to abstain from the vote.

A total of 3,002 respondents were polled countrywide.

Surprisingly, those who reported they were unlikely to vote were the youth (18-24) at 19.6pc while middle aged Kenyans (45-49) were the most likely voters polling an impressive 82.3pc.

The youth, who form majority of voters, have been touted as the one of the groups to benefit most from a new constitution and have been pushing for a generational change in Kenya’s leadership.

Other than Nyanza, the Yes camp draws its strength from North Eastern (77.8pc), Nairobi (76.9),Western (73.3pc), Central (64.9pc), Rift Valley (51.5pc) and Coast (54.9pc) respectively.

The new law backers have the least support from Eastern province (48.9pc), in Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka’s backyard.

Conversely, the No camp support is highest in the Rift Valley at 31.5pc followed by Eastern(29.7pc), Coast (18.8pc), Western (14.2pc), Central (14.0pc) and Nairobi (11.6pc).

The group has the least number of sympathisers in Nyanza (3.7pc) and North Eastern (8.7pc).

Of those polled, 85pc reported being registered to vote at the plebiscite while 15pc said they had not registered as voters. Of these number, 29.1pc said they had no identification card (ID) while 20.1pc reported that they will not voter or having no interest altogether.

Ignorance

A further 85pc of Kenyans reported having either read of heard about the proposed constitution with a paltry 12pc pleading ignorance.

The media was credited as the main source of information on the contents of the proposed constitution with 43.6pc relying on it followed by 23.2pc of Kenyans who said the document was their source.

On issues that Kenyans considered to be falsehoods peddled about the proposed constitution, 41pc said they did not believe that abortion will be legal under the new constitution.

31pc said they were unconvinced by reports that their land will be confiscated by the government if they vote for the proposed constitution, while 13pc said the notion that kadhi courts will affect all Kenyans was untrue.

Majority of those polled (26pc) reported they believed that abortion is illegal under the new law, while 20pc said land will not be taken away and 13pc saying that the proposed constitution will facilitate devolution of power and resources to the grassroots.

The Strategic Research poll is the fourth opinion poll released since the proposed constitution was published in May, to track Kenyan’s voting intentions and they have all shown the Yes side to be on the lead.

The poll will be used by both the Yes and No side to gauge their popularity on the ground and seek to convince voters in areas that are unsupportive of their cause to change their minds.
US accused of paying groups to boost ‘Yes’ camp support
On Tuesday, Representative Chris Smith released a list of Kenyan groups he said had received the Sh50 million from the US Agency for International Development, claiming it had been supplied by Usaid’s inspector general. Photo/FILE

On Tuesday, Representative Chris Smith released a list of Kenyan groups he said had received the Sh50 million from the US Agency for International Development, claiming it had been supplied by Usaid’s inspector general. Photo/FILE

By KEVIN J KELLEY, New York
Posted Wednesday, July 14 2010 at 22:07
The Obama administration is providing about Sh50 million to 10 Kenyan groups promoting a ‘Yes’ vote in the referendum, a US congressman said on Wednesday.

NAIROBI, Kenya – Three Republican members of the U.S. Congress are accusing the Obama administration of using money meant for civic education in Kenya to back a draft constitution that they fear would increase access to abortion in the African country.
The U.S. Embassy on Friday said it has provided about $11 million in support of constitutional reform in Kenya, but that an investigation into the funds found that nine of more than 200 subgrantees supported the “yes” campaign. A spokeswoman said the embassy has since suspended or concluded those nine grants.
Kenyans will vote on the draft constitution on Aug. 4, a vote that is part of wide-ranging efforts to avoid a repeat of political violence that saw more than 1,000 people killed after the country’s December 2007 presidential elections.
The fight over the U.S. funding centers around one of the draft constitution’s most contentious clauses — language that says abortion will not be permitted unless the life or health of the mother is in danger according to the opinion of a trained health professional.
Abortions are illegal in Kenya under current law, but hundreds of thousands of women still seek them each year. The existing law, however, also allows a doctor to perform an abortion if a woman’s life is in danger.
Rep. Chris Smith, a Republican from New Jersey, argues that the “trained health professional” clause reduces the qualifications needed of the abortion provider from current Kenyan law.
“The draft constitution, with its controversial provisions expanding access to abortion, is a matter for the Kenyan people to consider and decide,” said Smith. “The Obama administration should immediately withdraw all U.S. taxpayer funding used to buy votes and influence the outcome on the referendum.”
A part of U.S. law known as the Siljander Amendment makes it illegal for foreign assistance funds to be used to lobby for or against abortion.
Katya Thomas, a U.S. Embassy spokeswoman in Nairobi, said that the nine suspended grants originally had been given to support civic education, and constitutional and democratic reforms. But the primary contractor gave subgrants to other groups using language that had not been approved by the Embassy, she said.
“We don’t fund the ‘yes’ campaign, but around the region, not just in Kenya, through USAID, we support constitutional democratic reforms,” she said, referring to the U.S. government’s aid arm, USAID. She said she does not know when those nine subgrants were cut off.
Smith, in a statement, detailed 10 Kenyan organizations he said the U.S. Inspector General had found used funds to promote “yes” votes on the constitution.
Top U.S. officials have done little to hide their support of Kenya’s proposed constitution. President Obama has said the constitution is a “singular opportunity to put Kenyan governance on a more solid footing that can move beyond ethnic violence, can move beyond corruption.”
Last month during a visit here, Vice President Joe Biden said the new constitution would “deepen the roots of your democracy and ultimately guarantee your security.”
Rewriting Kenya’s constitution was part of the peace deal signed in February 2008 after the postelection violence. The draft constitution cuts down the Kenyan president’s current enormous powers by setting up an American-style presidential system of checks and balances.
The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi this week released a statement saying that unnamed Kenyan leaders have alleged that U.S. Ambassador Michael E. Ranneberger and the embassy are providing funding to members of parliament to support the yes campaign or are intimidating opponents of the constitution.
“These claims are categorically false, and those making such allegations are lying,” the embassy statement said.
Kenyan Justice and Constitutional Affairs Minister Mutula Kilonzo denied to AP that the U.S. was illicitly giving funds to those supporting the constitution.
Mutula said that the U.S. has historically given Kenya funds to support voter education directly and through contributions to the United Nations Development Program, and that current funding is for a similar process.

Civil servants have the right to support new law, says Kibaki

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President Kibaki has defended the involvement of civil servants in campaigning for the Proposed Constitution.
Speaking for the first time on the controversial issue, Kibaki termed as ‘propaganda’ leaders’ assertions that PSs, DCs, and PSs should not participate in the push for the Proposed Constitution.
He said civil servants have the right to campaign for a new set of laws. “They are not Ugandans or Tanzanians. The passage of the new constitution is about their lives and will affect them,” he told wananchi at the Suneka Airstrip, yesterday.
And the President continued dishing out goodies, as he took his campaigns to Kisii.
He said plans to make Kisii University College a full-fledged university were on.
Addressing a rally at Ogembo market, the President granted a request by local leaders led by Public Works Minister Chris Obure to create the new district.
The new Sameta District, carved out of Gucha, will have its headquarters at Itumbe market, along the Kisii-Kilgoris road.
Kibaki also pledged there would be changes on the number of counties, once the proposed law is passed.
Why barefaced lies are told in broad daylight against Proposed Constitution

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One hundred years ago today, a man called Charles Eliot was busy taking thousands of acres of land from our people in central Kenya and in the Rift Valley. He was giving it away to European settlers.
Eliot arrived in Kenya in 1902 as the new British commissioner to the protectorate. The construction of the Kenya/Uganda Railway was complete and it was payback time. The railway must pay for its construction, never mind whatever other reasons had caused the British to engage in this very costly investment. Eliot, for whom your popular bread of the 1960s and 1970s was named, was the man to make the railway pay for itself.
From the outset, Eliot was clear in his mind. He wanted to create ‘a white man’s country’ in the new territory. This was also the time when Europe was toying with the idea of settling on the Uasin Gishu Plateau Jews escaping from pogroms in Romania and Russia. The British colonial office was also toying with another idea of causing India to colonise Kenya. Never mind that India was itself a British colony at the time. Then there was the thought that the country could be given to South African Boers.
It was as if the indigenous people of Kenya did not exist. If they existed, they did not matter. This essence is best captured and expressed in the words of Baroness Isak Denisen (aka Karen Blixen), for whom an upper class suburb has been named in Nairobi. She said: ‘When you have caught the rhythm of Africa it is the same in all its elements. What I learnt from the flora and fauna of the country was useful in my dealings with the natives.’
Suffice it to say that mindsets of this kind placed in motion unjust land relations, which the political elite have been most reluctant to correct from 1902 to date. Eliot himself had very low opinion of Africans. He would send to London a cable with the words: ‘The African is greedy and covetous enough . . . he is too indolent in his ways, and too disconnected in his ideas, to make any attempt to better himself, or to undertake any labour which does not produce a speedy visible result. His mind is far nearer the animal world than is that of the European or Asiatic, and exhibits something of the animal’s placidity and want of desire to rise beyond the stage he has reached.’
Now this was very cruel. But it justified the taking away of land from Africans and giving it to Europeans without any feeling of shame. Already, in 1896, the Land Acquisition Act allowed the administration to acquire any land compulsorily for the railway . Then there was a series of land ordinances all the way to 1930, which were virtually licences for the settler community to ride roughshod through our land, turning our people in central Kenya and in the Rift Valley into paupers on their own land and creating pressures whose impact we still feel today.
S
uch are some of the historical injustices that the National Land Commission in the Proposed Constitution is supposed to investigate and recommend appropriate redress to, as stated in Article 67 (e) of the draft. Historical land injustices obtain today because independence did not correct the land problem. Instead the independent State complicated the problem. The new rulers inherited the attitudes and methods of their predecessors, with the ordinary Kenyan as their new victim. From such seemingly minor land grabs as the misappropriation of a portion of Suguta Road in Nairobi’s Kileleshwa and, until recently, Processional Way between Nyerere Road and State House Nairobi, they have gone all the way to the stealing national parks and forests.
The good news is that in their arrogant indifference, these people often forgot to alienate and de-gazette the Government land they appropriated. Fancy their panic when they read where it is written in the Proposed Constitution, among others, at Article 61(a): ‘Public land is land which at the effective date was unalienated Government land as defined by an Act of Parliament in force at the effective date.’ This is a horror story to the culprits.
Put this together with Article 65 that limits land holding rights by foreigners who have enjoyed unjust privilege to hundreds of thousands of prime farm land and ranches in the country for a century. Finally Article 40(6) says the Constitution will not protect ‘any property that has been found to have been unlawfully acquired.’ You begin understanding why barefaced lies are told in broad daylight against the Proposed Constitution. The foreign heirs of the Charles Eliot largesse have come together with the independent State land barons under the banner of the Kenya Land Owners Association (Kela) to sponsor lies, propaganda and half truths against the search for a humane constitution and the quest to correct a 100-year-old historical wrongs because of unlawfully acquired land. That is why they have no fixed issue against the draft. Any straw that will help them defeat the Proposed Constitution is game.
Depending therefore on where they go, these propagandists shift from grievances against proposed counties to woes against same imaginary sex marriage and from there to abortion, to Kadhi courts and to myriad lies against the draft and against Kenya. When the history of our times is finally written, there will be those who will fit the bill of Charles Eliot’s uncharitable perceptions of Africa. Their descendants will not want to carry their names and memory into the future.

How the lords of poverty fleece Africa

Published on 07/04/2009
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A report has come out to confirm what was common knowledge: How international mining companies rob Africa of its mineral resources.
The report comes at a time when there is an influx to Kenya of mining companies seeking contracts to prospect for oil and other resources.
Equipment set up by Tiomin Kenya Limited to extract titanium in Kwale District.
The report, titled, Breaking the Curse: How Transparent Taxation and Fair Taxes can Turn Africa’s Mineral Wealth into Development, highlights the methods mining companies employ to pay as little tax as possible.
The companies, the report states, use complicated corporate tax structures and accounting procedures to pay a pittance as tax.
Reports that Uganda and Tanzania recently struck oil and gas have opened up the same possibilities in Kenya with prospecting companies upping their quest to discover the ‘black gold’ in the country.
Action Aid’s Eric Mgendi, one of the contributors to the report, says Kenya would not fare any better than her mineral-rich neighbours like DR Congo, that are being ripped off of huge amount of tax revenue
“Most companies mining in Kenya do not report on how much tax they pay in individual foreign jurisdictions. This is partly because they are not under any international obligation to do so. They are also not keen to disclose information to tax authorities and others,” says Mr Mgendi.
He adds: “Tax avoidance is clearly often in breach of the spirit of the law and does not tally with many companies’ social responsibility rhetoric. Companies that regularly and aggressively avoid paying tax do not fully contribute to the social and economic fabric of society where they operate.”
In extreme cases, the companies force governments to grant tax subsidies and concessions by threatening to invest elsewhere if they are not forthcoming and insist that mining contracts signed between them and governments remain secret.
The Action Aid, Christian Aid, Third World Network Africa, Tax Justice Network Africa, and Southern Africa Resource Watch published the report.
Magnets for scandal
The report blames weak governance institutions as the root cause of Africa’s ‘Resource Curse’.
“One practical step to address poverty in Africa is to ensure that all multinational mining companies pay equitable amounts of tax,” said Action Aid’s Pan African Policy Manager Brian Kagoro during the report launch at a hotel in Nairobi.
Some of the questionable deals between Kenya and international companies that rocked the social and political fabric of the country include Anglo Leasing, Goldenberg and Tiomin Kenya Limited. Anglo Leasing and Goldenberg deals resulted in about Sh65 billion and Sh60 billion losses. The scandals have not been fully unravelled.
In 1995, Tiomin Kenya Ltd, a Kenyan subsidiary of a Canadian firm, struck what it said was the biggest unexploited titanium deposit in the world.
One of the ships exploring for oil off the Kenya coast. Photos: File/Standard
These included five titanium-rich sites with 650 million tonnes at Mambrui and 1.2 billion tonnes at Sokoke. The deposits at Sabaki, Mombasa and Kwale were never made public, although they were included in their contract.
Since the resource at stake represents more than 10 per cent of the world’s titanium deposits, opponents of the project argued that licensing should not be rushed. Civil society accused the company of ignoring the law and offering little compensation to residents who owned the land. The financiers withdrew at the last moment.
Mgendi said: “Tiomin preferred to deal with Government officials behind the scenes, ignoring stakeholders in the areas where deposits were found.”
But before Tiomin, there were mining companies who have continued to enjoy exclusive mining rights to mine fluorspar, soda ash, cement and lime. Residents in the mineral-rich areas have complained that they do not benefit from mineral resources in their localities.
The mining sector plays a fairly insignificant role in the national economy because it employs just slightly more than 5,000 people and contributes less than 1 per cent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Lion’s share
Compared to sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing and service industry, which contribute the lion’s share of GDP earnings, mining is yet to make an impact in the national economy and has traditionally received peripheral treatment in national development plans. In 2000, close to 700,000 tonnes of minerals valued at about Sh3.6 billion (£36m) were produced by the mining sector in Kenya.
“Kenya desperately requires investment, more now than ever before. But we would appreciate investment so long as it is responsible and considers the rights of the citizens,” said Mr Alvin Mosioma, Tax Justice Network Africa co-ordinator at the launch.
Some governments, according to the report, anxious to seal the contracts, are happy to oblige to investors demands before public scrutiny.
Kagoro said the secrecy surrounding such contracts is a recipe for tax avoidance strategies by the multinationals.
“Mining contracts and payments to governments need to be subjected to rigorous parliamentary scrutiny to improve accountability in this sector,” he said.
He added: “We need to strengthen the capacity of national regulatory tax authorities as well as rationalise international accounting standards to ensure compliance.”

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The Titanium Issue
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“A Pink Cheek man came one day to our Council. He sat in our midst and he told us of the king of the Pink Cheek, who was a great king and lived in a land over the seas. “This great king is now your king,” he said, “and this land is all his land, though he has said you may live on it”. This was strange news. For this land was ours. We had no king, we elected our own Councils, and they made our laws. With patience, our leading elders tried to tell this to the Pink Cheek, and he listened. But at the end he said, “This we know, but in spite of this, what I have told you is fact…In the town called Nairobi is a Council or government that acts for the king. And his laws are your laws” [Chief Kabongo of the Kikuyu recalling his first visitor from the British administration, in Kenya: Promised Land? – Oxfam GB (Oxford), 1998].

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P U B L I C D E C L A R A T I O N

THE MINING INDUSTRY’S TRACK RECORD ON THE ENVIRONMENT, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: A SOMBRE ASSESSMENT AND A RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE ON

This March, the City of Toronto hosts the “International Convention, Trade Show & Investors Exchange – Mining Investment Show”, sponsored by Barrick Gold Corporation. The convention brings together mining industry representatives from around the world. This event gives us the opportunity to express our deep concerns and to denounce the critical situation regarding increasing exploitation of natural resources, particularly mineral resources.

Today’s unfettered economic growth, with its emphasis on profits, power and wealth, runs roughshod over any concerns for the human, social and environmental effects of unregulated exploitation of resources. This trend is devastating for the environment and for communities. Ecosystems are disrupted. Soils contaminated. Air and water pollution increases. The food chain is disturbed. These often irreversible impacts are a direct result of the industrial extractive activities of the gas, petroleum and mining sectors. The recent GIEC report about climate change clearly outlines these impacts. There are also profound human consequences faced by communities, especially indigenous ones, which inhabit the regions where resource exploitation takes place.

The expansion of multinational extractive enterprises, including mining firms, particularly in Third world nations, appear like a new form of colonialism that succeeds by virtue of the use of economic might. These enterprises strip the earth of its natural wealth through full-blown devastation of vast portions of land. Often they set up shop through million-dollar lobby campaigns that provide them with access to the corridors of power of the local political and economic elite, combining seductive promises of profits, the purchasing of “gifts”, and the use of fear-mongering, threats and aggressive business tactics, sometimes even repressive actions.

These practices constitute a fundamental violation of human rights. A marked increase in violence occurs as mining companies push to expand their operations, including the use of repressive forces within communities as well as generalized militarization in and around the sites. Testimonies of such realities are turning up from all over the world. For example, nickel extraction in Sorowako (Indonesia) by the Canadian firm Inco completely disrupted the Karonsi’e Dongi indigenous community life: the people were forcibly displaced with the complicity of local authorities and the police. Traditional indigenous lands were taken over by the company, part of which was turned into a golf course and Inco constructed buildings on an indigenous graveyard. By taking advantage of local social conflicts, this firm was also able to take control of the territory of other communities in central Sulawesi. In 1999, the United Nations Truth Commission linked Inco to both human rights violations and murders in Guatemala. In San Marcos, one of the poorest regions of this nation, Glamis Gold Ltd. (now Goldcorp Inc.) has created a hostile climate filled with threats and intimidation. It continues to operate the Marlin mining project in spite of almost unanimous opposition from the local population (popular consultation of Sipacapa).

The case of the Pascua Lama mining project by the Canadian multinational, Barrick Gold Corporation, at the Chilean-Argentine border further illustrates the potential for unforeseen negative consequences. Situated at the heart of the Andean Cordillera, the Pascua Lama project endangers the entire watershed ecosystem of the Huasco valley, directly affecting the essential water resources within this semi-desert region: the glaciers. Not only does the project diminish the region’s already retreating glacial water sources, it will affect the quality of the water available by polluting it with the use of toxic products such as cyanide (already denounced in Berlin Declaration, 2000) and some heavy metals. The amount of water available will also be affected: mining operations needs enormous quantities of water (about 360 L per second). With this project, Barrick Gold has violated the territorial and ancestral rights of the Diaguita indigenous peoples who inhabit the territory of the mine. The firm’s efforts to begin mining in a territorial area that is already in dispute has disrupted life in the region, where agriculture is the main economic activity, as well as violating the right of the population to self-determination, that is, the right to choose their own form of development.

The extracting industries make enormous profits, among others, because of very low royalties and the often difficult social, economic and political conditions in the countries where they set up business. The traces and repercussions of mining enterprises are not part of community development, collective prosperity, security, well-being nor quality of life, as their official statements would have us believe. On the contrary, their activities mean social, environmental, cultural and human devastation.

In the current state of the world in which neo-liberal ideology dominates, foreign investment is naturally given priority above all other consideration. Given this reality, Canada must assume a major responsibility for its firms: a total of 60% of the international mining companies are Canadian. Voluntary measures that encourage them to respect the environment that are currently being adopted are clearly insufficient and despite this the Canadian government is considering them as potential means of regulating enterprises. Firm regulation and a rigorous system of control are vital. Media campaigns that portray mining multinationals as “responsible enterprises,” and in the case of Barrick as a “community mining enterprise”, are a far reach from the painful reality of their humans rights violations (environmental, social, indigenous) that occur alongside mining development projects around the world.

In order to improve this situation, we demand the following:

-1. The adoption of clear, urgent and effective measures that ensure the respect of the environment and of communities;

-1. The respect of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as a sine qua non requirement that should be integrated into the extractive projects of the mining industry.

March 2, 2007, Montreal

If you or your group want to sign on to this declaration please contact: marleau.marie-eve@courrier.uqam.ca

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To learn more about the mother of all “Ilmorog” meetings: http://www.pdac.ca/pdac/conv/index.html

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This is why we need to have comprehensive reforms before the next elections. We need transparency, accountability, new mining-laws etc.

Before the last (2002) elections:

Fate of Titanium Mining Awaits Kenya Polls

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2002/2002-12-19-03.asp

See also:

MP urges farmers to drop case against Tiomin plc
The Kenya Times,
http://www.timesnews.co.ke/23nov06/business/buns3.html

Minister For Environment Confirms Signing Date Of Fiscal Agreement For Tiomin’s Kwale Project
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2005_Jan_25/ai_n8708621

http://www.minesandcommunities.org/Action/press164.htm
Why Kulundu Ignored Pleas on Tiomin

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The False Economic Promise of Mineral Extraction

From: Thomas Michael Power
Dept. of Economics
University of Montana
Missoula, MT 59812
(406) 243-4586
e-mail: tmpower@selway.umt.edu

I was born and raised in Wisconsin and spent my teenage years paddling the rivers of northern Wisconsin. The threat of Exxon’s proposed Crandon mine to the Wolf and Wisconsin Rivers both saddens and outrages me. My thirty year experience as an economist living in Montana, the “Treasure State,” a state with a very long experience with the environmental legacy of copper mining, leads me to offer the following comments on the promises made by mining companies to local communities.

One of the most powerful arguments that mineral companies can muster in their endless quest for access to more of our landscape for their extractive purposes is that they offer rural communities and households something that they desperately need: high paying jobs. While most of our nonmetropolitan areas have watched their traditional economic bases deteriorate while new minimum wage jobs appeared to proliferate, the mineral extraction companies offer communities a prize that is very difficult to refuse: family-wage jobs that support blue collar access to a middle class lifestyle. Local and state government officials, chambers of commerce, and local civic organizations typically see these jobs as a godsend.

Given the massive environmental destruction that typically accompanies mineral extraction, such communities and their citizens appear to face a stark, tragic choice: accept the degradation of the natural environment and enjoy the prosperity the jobs bring or turn down those high-paying jobs and enjoy the resulting higher environmental quality but live in relative poverty. The “jobs versus the environment” dualism cannot be presented in starker terms.

But something is seriously missing in this characterization of the choices our communities face. Review in your mind the mining towns you are familiar with. How many of them, if any, are prosperous? Most of our mining and smelter towns are run-down and decrepit. The communities that depend upon them have average incomes well below the national average. Poverty rates and unemployment are higher. Almost any measure of socioeconomic health, child abuse, alcoholism, spouse-battering, school accomplishment, etc. indicate anything but healthy communities.

The promise of high-paid jobs in mineral extraction does not materialize in community health and prosperity. Quite the opposite: Reliance upon these industries systematically undermines the community’s ability to create a secure social and economic environment for its citizens.

How can we explain this dramatic and systematic failure of resource extraction’s promise of a prosperous future for communities willing to embrace it? The answer lies in the other economic characteristics of these industries, besides their relatively attractive wage levels. First is the instability that is endemic in mining industries. In modern chemical mining, mine lives can be as short as 5 to 10 years. Even those short run operations can be interrupted by dramatic declines in metal prices on international markets. Second, these industries are “mature” economic activities that have been with us since before the industrial revolution.

We have had decades, even centuries, to adapt technology to natural resource extraction. The result has been dramatic and impressive gains in labor productivity. With each passing year, a smaller and smaller labor force is needed to extract larger and larger quantities of raw materials and process them. This has meant that the employment opportunities provided by these industries are steadily declining.

The result of these common characteristics of mining industries is that the employment and income associated with them are very uncertain, despite the relatively high wages. Workers do not know how long they will collect those high paycheques. Local merchants do not know how long the income associated with those industries will circulate within the local economy. Both workers and local merchants react rationally to this instability and uncertainty: They reduce their investment in the local community. They do not buy or build new homes; they do not expand their businesses. Local officials are hesitant to invest in local public infrastructure too, since a mine or mill shut down could leave them without the ability to pay off the bonds, pay for the up-keep, and afford the salaries of the additional public employees. Workers do not even move to the mining towns; they commute very long distances, carrying away their paycheques from the community.

The result of this rational adaptation to these objective characteristics of the natural resource industries is what we observe in our mine and smelter towns: economic and social depression, the opposite of prosperity.

But this is just the beginning of an economic unravelling. Mining tends to have dramatic negative impacts upon the natural landscape: trees are stripped away, the topology is radically changed, streams are poisoned and silted up, fisheries are destroyed, wildlife habitat is fragmented, the recreational potential of the land is degraded, scenic beauty is lost, and air and water quality deteriorates as a result of both the extraction and the processing of the raw materials. This is not just an environmental or aesthetic concern. It is also an economic disaster.

Over the last half-century people, businesses, and economic activity have increasingly shifted in the direction of perceived high quality living environments. People, indisputably, care where they live and act on those preferences. As they do, economic activity shifts, too, because businesses have to pay attention to where the labor supply and markets for their products are located. This means that an area’s ability to attract and hold people and businesses is crucial to its economic development. The locally specific qualities of the social and natural environment that make it attractive are central features of the area’s economic base.

Mining can systematically undermine that part of an area’s economic base as it sacrifices the natural landscape for the unstable, short term, and declining employment opportunities mining offers. Long before the mineral deposit gives out, the layoffs tied to technological change or instability on international commodity markets steadily shrinks the employment base. The community is left with an increasingly ravaged natural landscape and an impoverished community that cannot hang on to its people. The long decline and decay evident in most of our mining towns sets in.

This negative and depressing scenario can be read as a positive economic development scenario for those communities who see through the promise of high-paid jobs and confront the economic reality of reliance upon these destructive and unstable industries. Preserving the quality of the natural environment in which a community is embedded protects an important part of the community’s current and future economic base. Focusing upon diversification and stability lays the basis for household, business, and public investment. Encouraging local entrepreneurial solutions to problems rather than passively seeking salvation in the facilities of a large international corporation also builds a resilience into the local economy and community that no company town ever has.

When natural resource industries make their “offers that cannot be refused, “we have to keep in mind the powerful images of Butte, Montana, Kellogg, Idaho, Lead, South Dakota, the copper towns of Arizona, the iron fields of Minnesota, the coal fields of Appalachia. Part of our brain knows that the economic offer being made to our communities is not anything like what it appears to be. This is not speculative doom-saying; it is economic reality. Rather than retreating to the environmental moral high ground when these economic promises are made, we need to confront the false promises on their own terms, with hard economic facts.

[Thomas Michael Power is Professor of Economics and Chairman of the Economics Department at the University of Montana. He recently published two books, Lost Landscapes and Failed Economies: The Search for a Value of Place (Island Press) and Environmental Protection and Economic Well-Being: The Economic Pursuit of Quality (M.E. Sharpe).]

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BENNY HINN

AGENT OF THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

WHY IS BENNY HINN AIDING AND ABETTING THE TEMPLAR TAKEOVER OF ISRAEL?
And why is Benny working with Templar organizations that promote the ordination of homosexuals?
The following report confirms our suspicions that the Knights Templar are conducting the present crusade in the Middle East to establish a base for their planned invasion of Israel. These modern-day knights are also forming a religious coalition to mollify Israel with a phony peace treaty and to rebuild the Temple of Solomon, from which venue the Bible states the Antichrist will rule over a Masonic one-world religion and government. The report also reveals that Charismatic healer, Benny Hinn, is involved in this religio-political initiative and working closely with an Anglican Templar/Jesuit organization that promotes the ordination of homosexuals.
It seems that Benny Hinn’s assignment in the Templars’ current Crusade is “to get the US Evangelical leaders to be in favour of the Middle East Peace Process.” The ICR Middle East Update from Knight Templar Andrew White dated 13th February 2004 stated: “Benny had phoned me whilst in the US last week stating that he wanted to meet me soon. It just so happened we were both in Dubai the same day. This was in relation to our need to get the US Evangelical leaders to be in favour of the Middle East Peace Process. We met at his hotel for breakfast on Thursday morning. He explained that he had heard much about our work and wanted to support it. He has also said that he will come to Israel with us ASAP. Both the Israelis and Palestinians are very keen that he should come on board with the Alexandria Process.”

So Benny Hinn is participating in the deceptive peace process which will mislead the Jews to receive a false Christ, who will drive them from the Holy Land which will then become the headquarters of said Antichrist who will place the Abomination of Desolation in the Temple (Matt. 24:16) and proclaim himself to be God. “…that man of sin…the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.” (II Thes.2:3-4) Evangelical Christians seem strangely ignorant of these end-time prophecies, judging from their support for the Antichrist’s program with millions of dollars in donations to ministries like Benny Hinn’s — $$$$$$ that will be spent rebuilding the Masonic Temple of Solomon.

The Anglican Templar organization with Jesuit leadership that Benny works with also promotes Christian reconciliation with homosexuals and the ordination of homosexuals as ministers, priests and bishops. The Knights Templar were the powerful medieval chivalric order from which the present orders of Freemasonry evolved. They claim to be working to restore traditional values, however, the evidence of history presents a rather different testimony as to moral values of the Templars. Dr. Cathy Burns wrote of the homosexual proclivities of the medieval Templars in her book, Hidden Secrets of the Eastern Star:

“In the book entitled The Guilt of the Templars, we are told that ‘the Knights Templars’ confessions show them to have been basically homosexual warrior order…’ Other chargers were that the Knights Templar participated in black magic and pederasty (anal intercourse, usually with a boy). They practiced ‘phallicism or sex-worship and Satanism and venerated ‘The Baphomet,’ the idol of the Luciferians. The crime of sodomy was a rite of Templar initiation.” (p.104)

Documentation of Benny Hinn’s collaboration with this Antichrist organization with links to the UN, CFR and the Jesuits has been submitted by Dennis Rhodes of Australia.

BENNY HINN: AGENT FOR THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR

By Dennis Rhodes
On the morning of 5/24/2004 in Perth Western Australia on “This Is Your Day”, Benny Hinn hosted Canon Andrew White, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury’s representative in the Middle East. White was spruking off about getting Benny into Iraq for a crusade in which he (White) says many thousands of Iraqis will be saved. On searching White in Google I found that he is a major tool in the devil’s hands to unite all faiths. Added to this, White is a regular speaker for Mahesh Chavda’s conferences in the U.K.

“In 1998, Andrew was installed as Director of International Ministry for the Diocese and Cathedral of Coventry. Since then he has headed up Coventry’s International Ministry of Reconciliation, more recently with Canon Justin Welby, which includes conflict resolution and the Community of the Cross of Nails, with centres in over 50 countries.”

Also, White is linked with Lord George Carey who was the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury but is now partners with James Wolfenson (CFR) of the World Bank organisation, whose aims are to unite the three faiths in the Middle East.

Benny Hinn on his T.V. show, “This Is Your Day,” had Canon White as a guest during this last week (end of May 04). Hinn repeatedly said to the camera and his studio audience that, ‘This is a Man of God people, filled with the Spirit.” Hinn commented that it is amazing how God has White in the Middle East with all of his connections… White, for his part on the show, said that Benny should come to the Middle East and that White would arrange it, that thousands would be saved. Hinn said that he met White in the Dubai airport previously and that he wanted him to come on his show.

If you read White’s website on his involvement with Hinn it is a bit different.

“Benny had phoned me whilst in the US last week stating that he wanted to meet me soon. It just so happened we were both in Dubai the same day… This was in relation to our need to get the US Evangelical leaders to be in favour of the Middle East Peace Process….he had heard much about our work and wanted to support it.”

Both White and Benny have “a need to get the US Evangelicals to be in favour.”….. That is why Benny had him on his show I think. He is selling White AS A MAN OF GOD and thus selling what White stands for and believes to the Evangelicals of USA. I assume that Hinn does not join himself to any ministry without first checking it out??
ANDREW WHITE IS AN ASSOCIATE OF MAHESH CHAVDA AND TODD BENTLEY

Andrew White was one of the main speakers at this Mahesh Chavda Conference “Ushering in the Glory” – 22-25 April 2004.

Andrew White was a speaker at another conference put on by Chavda, with Todd Bentley:

18-21 September 2003 “Signs and Wonders Conference.” Todd Bentley claims that the Lord told him an angel named “Healing Revival” has now come to Bentley to bring miracles of healing in his ministry. Bentley said that the Lord told him that this angel is the same one that was with William Branham in the Latter Rain revival in the late 40’s /early 50’s!!!

This is Todd telling how Branham and himself operate through the agency of an angel and not the the Holy Spirit…

Living in the Supernatural & Opening Our Eyes to the Angelic Realm

SO CANON ANDREW IS A CONFERENCE SPEAKER ON A PAR WITH TODD BENTLEY. HINN AND CHAVDA KNOW ONE ANOTHER WELL AS SUZANNE HINN ALSO SPEAKS AT HIS CONFERENCES. SO IT IS REASONABLE TO ASSUME CHAVDA OR SUZANNE HINN PUT WHITE ONTO BENNY HINN. WHY??

WHITE IS FOLLOWING ORDERS FROM CAREY AND WOLFENSON AND THE PENTAGON TO USE RELIGION (HINN) TO BRING “TRANSFORMATION” IN THE MIDDLE EAST. THE TYPE OF RELIGION THAT BRINGS A FALSE PEACE INDUCED BY REPETITIVE WORSHIP AND THAT RELIES ON THE PARTICIPANTS BEING PASSIVE IN THEIR MINDS! FALSE HEALINGS AND MIRACLES IN THE MIDDLE EAST WORKED BY A FALSE TEACHER/PROPHET. HINN IS SKILLED IN BRINGING THE MASS CROWD TO A PLACE OF PASSIVITY AS THEY ALL FOCUS ON THEIR GNOSTIC “JESUS” WANTING DESPERATELY TO SEE HIM, BE TOUCHED BY HIM AND OTHER NON-BIBLICAL EXPERIENCES.

WATCHMAN NEE SAID IT WELL WHEN HE STATED IN THE SPIRITUAL MAN:

“…in order for evil spirits to work on man, it is necessary that man’s mind and will be completely empty and passive. Evil spirits rejoice exceedingly at all who fulfill this condition and immediately go to work. When a ‘heathen’ fulfills this condition, evil spirits will possess him; when a believer fulfills this condition, evil spirits will also come into him without any reservation.”

THE SHOFAR IS BLOWING

Todd Bentley recently said of the Revival and Emerging Apostolic Movement…

“Somebody emailed our ministry and asked a valid question. He said,

‘Todd, you are going to have all these men – prophets and apostles – get together and talk about the emerging apostolic movement. My fear would be that there wouldn’t be a representation of the Goths, the Punks and the Ravers – the whole underground world that God is moving in today – the movement that offends and scares most people in the church. You know – the punked and colored hair with all the earrings and piercings in every part of the body. Is there not room for true apostle and prophets in that sub-culture?’

From that question I realized that we need to be very careful in the whole new emerging (apostolic) movement, not to just package it how we think it should look. I am going to make some statements now: There are punk apostles; there are biker prophets; there are ravers that are apostles; there are skinheads that are part of this prophetic movement…I don’t have any here right now. I’d be the closest thing. We must not forget that these (sub-cultures) have a voice in this whole prophetic movement too. The teenage apostles and the teenage prophets are being raised up, and it’s also happening in other spheres of life too.” [Revival Now]

Editor: If you don’t know what the Goths, the Punks and the Ravers are, you can read up on these teenage death cults at: The Graveyard Scene.

“Iraq was ancient Babylon. Saddam’s main purpose was to restore ancient Babylon. In one of Saddam’s palaces, there is a room called the throne room. It was the seat of Saddam’s power. After the fighting in Iraq, allied forces turned that throne room into a chapel. Today, prayer is offered three times a day, and there are Bibles all over the place. Canon Andrew White is the personal ambassador of the archbishop of Canterbury to the Middle East. Andrew White told us of his trip to Baghdad that he made after the May conference here at watch headquarters. He said he knew that he needed the glory that was at the conference, especially on Saturday night, to go with him on that trip. Bonnie gave him our live worship watch CD. He played two songs all the way on that 14 hour journey, but primarily the song, “We Will Ride.” Andrew calls it the white horse song from one line that says, “He has fire in His eyes and a sword in His hand; He’s riding a white horse across that land.” He told us that the first song played in that chapel was the “white horse” song. Then he noticed on the ceiling there’s a dome, and painted all around the dome are beautiful white horses that Saddam had ordered be painted there. Amazing story”

Remember that a Knights Templar symbol is 2 riders on a horse with a sword/lance. (right)

Also, the logo of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is a rider on a white horse. (below)

James D. Wolfenson, President of the World Bank, who partners with former Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Carey, and works with Knight Templar, Canon Andrew White, to bring about Reconciliation in the Mideast, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

OFFICIAL INTERNATIONAL WEBSITE OF THE KINGHTS TEMPLAR

White himself was awarded the medal of merit

“Canon Andrew White has been awarded two major awards for his inter-faith work in the Middle East.

“The first was presented on Saturday 7th September in Germany by the Knights Templar of Jerusalem. Canon White was admitted as a Companion of Honour the orders highest award in recognition of his services to Jerusalem. The Grand Magisterial Council of Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani dates back to the time of the Crusades though the endeavours of the order today are very different from the original aims of the crusaders.”

Simon Le Fevre
Grand Prior of England & Wales

The Autumn Magistral Council Meetings in Büdingen 7 – 9 November 2003 seem to have been a great success with a record attendance. Read the report on this too! Budingen 2003: A Personal Recollection

Post Büdingen

The meetings of the Magistral Grand Council of OSMTH – Knights Templar International took place in the autumn of 2003, under the auspices of the Grand Priory of the USA, in the medieval town of Budingen, a few tens of miles north east of Frankfurt-am-Main in Germany. …” The Reverend Canon Andrew White, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Representative in the Holy Land & the Middle East, told movingly of his work in helping children,…”
SO ANDREW WHITE SPOKE AT THE MAHESH CHAVDA “SIGNS AND WONDERS CONFERENCE” 18-21 SEPTEMBER 2003 AND THEN AT THE KNIGHTS TEMPLAR INTERNATIONAL GRAND COUNCIL IN BÜDINGEN, GERMANY FROM 7-9 NOVEMBER 2003.

News Flash!

As the Archbishop of Canterbury’s Special Representative to the Middle East, Canon Andrew White co-ordinates the religious track of the Middle East “peace process.” Heading up the work of reconciliation at White’s Coventry Cathedral for the past several years has been Georges Sada, a former Air Vice Marshall in the army of Saddam Hussein. Recently, however, Sada was chosen to be chief advisor and spokesman for the new Prime Minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi!

Iyad Allawi is a former CIA operative who formed a terrorist organization which conducted a bombing campaign and sabotage operations in Iraq in the early 1990s. As disclosed in a recent New York Times article, the bombing campaign was reported to have caused civilian casualties but never threatened the rule of Saddam Hussein. Ironically, Saddam Hussein was also put into power in 1968 by the CIA. See Update below.
WHITE IS NOT A MAN OF GOD

* White saw nothing wrong with accepting an award from a Knights Templar group.
* White’s CCN counterpart in USA, Rev. James A Diamond is an Jesuit-trained Ignatius Director, whose church in Cincinnati are wanting to bring Reconciliation with the homosexual community and who believe in the ordination of Homosexual priest Gene Robinson.
* White is still involved with Dr George Carey and with Diamond in the Middle East to bring so called Reconciliation (another word for the joining of religions) between the three monotheistic religions.
* White’s church choir led worship in a Buddhist meeting place to “god”.
* White is called “Templar Knight Canon Andrew White of the British Anglican Church (Second Row, Gray Suit).” [Knightgraphs: Iraq Photo Journal shows the major role played by Canon White and the Knights Templar in the conquest of Iraq and the Mideast “peace process.”]

White’s U.S.A. Community of the Cross Nails man, James Diamond said,

“I will be joining Canon White and Lord Carey (the former Archbishop of Canterbury) in Jerusalem later this week for another effort in the Alexandria accord.” April 2004. (Website of President of CCN USA James Diamond)

So Benny Hinn has joined to this man White, and by association to Carey (World Bank involvement) and to Diamond (Occultic Ignatius Loyola exercises) Also added to this is the disturbing involvement of the U.N. and the World Bank and the Pentagon and Rumsfeld etc etc. These groups are loyal to the age old plan to establish a New World Order with it’s accompanying one world HARLOT church. The stated aim of the World Bank and the U.N. is to have DIALOGUE between the 3 monotheistic faiths in the Middle East. This will bring the false peace that the Scriptures speak of 1 Thess 5:3. Not just words though but words that lead to action. They are painting the picture that Muslims and Jews and Christians all worship the same God. There will be a constant push to forget differences and join together.
Lord Carey’s site, The World Faith Development Dialogue site accessed through the World Bank site.
…..This is Lord Carey’s site in association with James D. Wolfenson, the President of the World Bank (Bilderberger, CFR, Tri Lateral Commission)
Read what Wolfenson and Carey have to say on the manipulation of religion….

President World Bank. James D. Wolfensohn
FAITH AND DEVELOPMENT
“The World Bank’s engagement with the religious community involves three key areas:”

“Dialogue” entails a willingness to listen and learn, and to be transformed by the exchange.
“…it has increasingly been recognized that the religious community can play a pivotal role in building bridges, contributing to change and continuity among communities, and addressing today’s central development challenges. Through dialogue and engagement, many have come to see that religious institutions and actors have an important contribution to make to the critical debates about the broad global agenda for the new millennium.”

The globalists or Illuminati have come to see that they can use religion for their goals. Hinn is just another important “actor” in this process. The ecumenical movement is making room for the entry of the Charismatics through Hinn’s direct involvement!

“Yet, many western societies have followed a model where there was a distinct separation between “church” and “state”…..
“Today’s events and challenges present new questions about these divides and walls, and call for a new series of bridges.”

From the above quote from the World Bank we can see that their agenda is to join the state and religion together through dialogue designed to bring transformation and change. We know from scripture that Antichrist will rule a religious kingdom with the false Harlot church riding the political beast. This dialogue the World Bank has CAREY AND WHITE AND DIAMOND AND NOW POSSIBLY HINN INVOLVED IN is to form this Harlot church in the Middle East!

“Mr. Wolfensohn believes that September 11, 2001 may well have marked the start of an important paradigm shift in thinking about the links between globalization, international relations, and religion. We have witnessed in the post 9/11 period an extraordinary outpouring of thinking in all areas of endeavor. This has brought the links between religion and development into much sharper focus, brought the dialogue to the mainstream, and given new impetus to the global development agenda. Above all, questions about social justice – what it means, how it can be achieved, how it is tied to peace and stability, and who is responsible – are central in global debate and dialogue.” (from the World Bank site)

From the quote above, this paradigm shift is exactly what is happening. The shift they have always planned for. “Let’s forget about our differences and join together in one big family.”… “a brotherhood of man.”….

Today I received a video from the States and it was wrapped in newspaper. The South Carolina paper “The State” from 5/25/04 carried the Bush speech to the Army War College. In it he said,

“We believe that when all Middle Eastern peoples are finally allowed to live and think and work and worship as free men and women, they will reclaim the greatness of their own heritage. And when that day comes, the bitterness and burning hatreds that feed terrorism will fade and die away.” p.A5

Reading between the lines, what the administration is saying, I believe, is that they intend to “liberate” ALL the peoples of the Middle East! Iraq is their launching pad into the entire region. For what? To bring so called “democracy” to ALL the peoples of the Middle East. The Templars and the Freemasons want Jerusalem. Antichrist (Satan) wants it too. The U.N. was set up for this very thing! Andrew White has meetings with the Pentagon top brass and is actively trying to get the Evangelical leaders on board his agenda for “peace and safety” in the Middle East.

Funny that one of those leaders is Tim La Haye who used a Knights Templar Rosy Cross on his book cover and a Masonic symbol on another..

The following link explains what Cross of Nails is, from a member’s viewpoint:

THE US PRESIDENT OF CROSS OF NAILS– An IGNATIUS (Loyola) DIRECTOR!!

Chapel of the Cross Center of the Cross of Nails

Interfaith Award to Canon White

US President of the Community of the Cross of Nails – James Diamond

“Diamond concluded the commissioning service, ‘Will you be guided on the journey of reconciliation by prayer and hospitality as inspired by the Rule of Benedict?’ The congregation’s response resounded through the great cathedral: ‘We will with God’s help.’

“St. Benedict’s sixth-century ‘rules’ for a way of living are the heart of the Community of the Cross of Nails program at St. Mark’s and at 240 other centers located in 60 countries. At the core of the program are ‘Hospitality and Reconciliation Circles’ which are small groups that meet monthly to pursue the Benedictine Way. Over 130 persons in the St. Mark’s congregation are currently participating in this in-depth journey into reconciliation and more join each month.”

[Monasteries were/are fronts for occult activity, sexual perversion, the promotion of asceticism and Merovingian infiltration of the Church. See: Heeding Bible Prophecy: Monastic Communities]

HOMOSEXUAL PRIEST SPEAKS AT THEIR CONFERENCE. Good one BENNY!!!

“It was also announced that St. Mark’s will host a national Cross of Nails conference in June on the topic of sexual orientation reconciliation. One of the speakers will be the Right Rev. V. Gene Robinson, Bishop Coadjutor of New Hampshire, whose election and confirmation as the first openly-gay bishop in the Christian church, has caused international controversy. Bishop Robinson will also be the preacher at St. Mark’s on June 20, 2004.”

U.S. President of “cross of nails” gives consent for ordination of a Homosexual – a snip from Rev Diamond’s sermon.

“You and I know that we can quote various disconnected verses from Genesis, Leviticus and Romans and we can find in those parts of the Hebrew text and in the Epistles uncompromising words that condemn homosexual acts. Taking verses out of context and out of history is not a responsible use of Scripture. I suggest to you that there are two things that balance against this use of scripture. First, Jesus’ commentary on homosexual activity in the gospels; it does not exist. There is not a word about homosexuality either because he forgot it, not likely; he did not think it was important, probably untrue; or perhaps he felt that we could come to understand sexual orientation on our own since it was not a matter of sin.”

CAN YOU BELIEVE BENNY IS LINKING WITH THIS ORGANISATION?!

Reconciliation Ministry – Christ Church Cathedral
Alexandria Declaration

“Reconciliation is not a static, rule-driven endeavor, but a dynamic, living practice of relationships that allows people to know we are all within the human family, which is God’s family. No one is outside,” said Beverly Jones.

(I thought only those in Christ were in God’s Family?!)

This is all linked with Andrew White. And now Benny Hinn. Promoting Homosexual ordination.

Thursday, June 19, 2008
Benny Hinn: healer or hypnotist?

By Joe Nickel

Benny Hinn tours the world with his “Miracle Crusade,” drawing thousands to each service, with many hoping for a healing of body, mind, or spirit. A significant number seem rewarded and are brought onstage to pour out tearful testimonials. Then, seemingly by the Holy Spirit, they are knocked down at a mere touch or gesture from the charismatic evangelist. Although I had seen clips of Hinn’s services on television, I decided to attend and witness his performance live when his crusade came to Buffalo, New York, last June 28-29. Donning a suitable garb and sporting a cane (left over from a 1997 accident in Spain), I limped into my seat at the HSBC Arena, downtown.

Learning the Ropes
Benny Hinn was born in 1953, the son of an Armenian mother and Greek father. He grew up in Jaffa, Israel, “in a Greek Orthodox home” but was “taught by nuns at a Catholic school” (Hinn 1999, 8). Following the Six-Day War in 1967, he emigrated to Canada with his family. When he was nineteen he became a born-again Christian. Nearly two years later, in December 1973, he traveled by charter bus from Toronto to Pittsburgh to attend a “miracle service” by Pentecostal faith-healing evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman (1907-1976). At that service he had a profound religious experience, and that very night he was pulled from bed and “began to shake and vibrate all over” with the Holy Spirit (Hinn 1999, 8-14).

Before long Hinn began to conduct services sponsored by the Kathryn Kuhlman Foundation. Kuhlman died before Hinn could meet her personally but her influence on him was profound, as he acknowledged in a book, Kathryn Kuhlman: Her Spiritual Legacy and Its Impact on My Life (Hinn 1999). Eventually he began preaching elsewhere, including the Full Gospel Tabernacle in Orchard Park, New York (near Buffalo) and later at a church in Orlando, Florida. By 1990 he was receiving national prominence from his book Good Morning, Holy Spirit, and in 1999 he moved his ministry headquarters to Dallas.

Lacking any biblical or other theological training, Hinn was soon criticized by other Christian ministries. One, Personal Freedom Outreach, labeled his teachings a “theological quagmire emanating from biblical misinterpretation and extra-biblical ‘revelation knowledge.'” He admitted to Christianity Today magazine that he had erred theologically and vowed to make changes (Frame 1991), but he has continued to remain controversial. Nevertheless, according to a minister friend, “Outside of the Billy Graham crusade, he probably draws the largest crowd of any evangelist in America today” (Condren 2001).

Hinn’s mentor, Kathryn Kuhlman, who performed in flowing white garments trimmed with gold (Spraggett 1971, 16), was apparently the inspiration for Hinn’s trademark white suits and gold jewelry. From her he obviously learned the clever “shotgun” technique of faith-healing (also practiced by Pat Robertson and others). This involves announcing to an audience that certain healings are taking place, without specifying just who is being favored (Randi 1987, 228-229).

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Pressure mounts against Freemasons in Kenya
Panafrican News Agency (PANA) Daily Newswire
By Tervil Okoko
September 24, 2000

NAIROBI, Kenya (PANA) – Riot police fired in the air Saturday to stop riotous members of the un-registered Mungiki religious sect from burning the Freemasons Hall in Nairobi, East African Standard reported Sunday.
The group, led by its national co-ordinator, Ibrahim Ndira Waruingi, marched to the hall armed with four jerricans of petrol and attempted to gain access to the premises of the Freemasons Hall on Nyerere Road. The controversial Mungiki members, who have been engaging police in running battles, claimed the hall housed satanic and demonic materials used by members of the Freemasons society, which they allegedly wanted to exorcise.
“We are targeting a snake which is fed on human blood drawn from children kidnapped by Freemasons,” they said. They further claimed the movement was responsible for the disappearance of people from the city estates.
Mysterious murders have rocked Nairobi of late. However, the Nairobi Central police station deputy commander, Patrick Mbarire, warned the group against invading private property, telling the Mungiki sect members that freedom of worship in the country was enshrined in the constitution.
But Waruingi insisted: “We must burn the abode of all the evil that has pervaded our country before we perish.” Saturdays attack on the Freemasons Hall comes in the wake of several others by Mungiki sect members and a section of mainstream churches in Kenya. Following decades of its discreet character in a country where freedom of worship is overtly provided for in the constitutional laws, the Freemason society is facing a tough challenge this time with a growing number of people calling for its proscription.
On 9 September, police had to use force to thwart an attempt by Mungiki Sect members-turned Muslims, who were planning to storm the Freemasons Hall in Nairobi. Even though the management of the Freemason Hall in Nairobi has chosen to remain tight-lipped on the matter, and even refusing to respond to inquiries by the press on the mounting pressure, the Freemasons themselves have defended their society against the onslaughts, saying theirs was just a club and no snakes or evil charms were kept in its hall.
Mainstream churches have also joined the fray that is increasingly seeing the Masonic society in Kenya being pushed to the wall. Citing an example fo Freemasonry that is quickly taking root in the society, parish pastor of Nairobi’s St. Andrews Presbyterian Churches of East Africa or PCEA, Rev. Johnson Mwara, 10 September said the group should be abolished in the country as it has no moral standing to the wider community.
He called for a change in the country’s constitution to outlaw practices undermining human dignity under the pretence of religion. PCEA is one of the oldest traditional English churches in Kenya.
The PCEA’s call came back barely a week after a consortium of churches, during an interdenominational conference in Nanyuki, about 130 miles north of Nairobi, called for the total ban on Freemasonry in Kenya. The Nanyuki conference, attended by officials of the National Council of Churches, Evangelical Fellowship of Kenya, the Catholic Church and representatives of the Independent Churches of Kenya, lashed out at the Freemason society, accusing it of “engaging in undercurrent activities.” The churches pointed out that Freemasonry is a secretive society whose activities may not be good to the welfare of the human society.
They challenged the Freemasons to be open if what they are up to is legal and moral. There are a few prominent figures, including the current deputy speaker of parliament, Job Omino, and opposition legislator Paul Muite.
Only its headquarters – the Freemasons hall – popularly known as “White House” due to its clean whitewashed walls, would constantly remind Kenyans of its existence in a society where religion is increasingly leading many people by the nose.
Rev. Ananie Nduwamungu of PCEA says nobody outside the Freemasons really understand what the society stands for, or its goals and objectives in the society. According to Mwara, it is important for the public to be informed on the beliefs and practices of the society (Freemason) and be left to judge if they have a role to play in character development.
“Why don’t they just come out clean in the open and tell us whom they worship and how they do it? The public needs to be made aware to remove the mystery and secrecy of the organisation,” the cleric said.
On 3 September, Rev. Samuel Muli of the Church of Christ led a group of demonstrators in the city as part of the ongoing campaigns to outlaw the Freemansonry in the East African country. Accusing the organisation of clandestine operations, Muli who is also the director of Evangelism Association – a consortium of evangelical revival churches, said Freemasonry is a threat to the human race and thus the need to have it abolished.
In a strange correlation, Mwara and the Mungiki sect members would want to attribute Kenya’s current afflictions – ranging from the economic hardships to the electricity and water rationing and drought – to the Masonic practices in the country. “Unless they (Freemasons) were exposed, the problems of the country will continue,” Mwara said.
Kenya is currently reeling under a heavy water and electricity rationing due to a ragin drought that has blanketed the country since early May.

1. There appears to be no website for Kenyan freemasonry, and this is confirmed (at least partly) by the following webpage: “the Foreign Grand Lodges Recognised by The United Grand Lodge of England / Commonwealth Grand Lodges” ….
http://www.grandlodge-england.org/provin…

2. The only references to be found on the internet are about former President Moi’s commission to investigate Kenya’s Freemasons for alleged Satanism, and attacks on the Freemasons’ Hall in Nyerere Road, Nairobi by the Mungiki religious sect in 2000 ….
http://www.masonicinfo.com/kenya.htm
http://freemasonrywatch.org/kenyafreemas…
http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a37abc…
http://www.hrwf.net/religiousfreedom/new…
http://www.apologeticsindex.org/news/an2…

News
Devil worship rampant in schools

How the Nation published parts of the findings by a probe commission chaired by Archbishop Nicodemus Kirima on devil worship in Kenya.

By GAKIHA WERU
Posted Sunday, June 13 2010 at 00:00

When Philip Onyancha was a Form One student at Kenyatta Mahiga High School in Nyeri, then President Daniel arap Moi appointed a commission to inquire into devil worship in Kenya.
At that time, the country was throbbing with claims of widespread devil worship with some reports linking the practice to people in high places.
The commission headed by Archbishop Nicodemus Kirima, was appointed in March 1995 when Onyancha was in his first term in secondary school.
For his efforts in trying to literally unearth the devil, Archbishop Kirima and his commissioners were derided by critics who disparaged their report when it was published in 1999.
Onyancha, who has sensationally claimed to have killed 17 people, has claimed his actions are a result of a cult into which he was inducted while in high school.
In the context of the findings and recommendations of the Kirima Commission, perhaps the inquiry had merit. The commission reported that it had found evidence of students who were occultists.
“The members consider themselves above the law and are organised into cults. Evidence of such Satanism was found in schools which the commission visited,” the report stated.
The team had been established to investigate whether there were devil worship cults in Kenya and whether they were linked to drug abuse and other anti-social activities.
The commission traversed the country recording views of the public, religious and political leaders, students, teachers and heads of educational institutions.
It presented its report to the President towards the end of 1995. Nothing was heard about it until a year later when Mr Moi said it would not be made public because it contained sensitive information.
This, in turn, fuelled speculation with claims in Parliament that the government was reluctant to publish the report because it had fingered prominent people.
The report was not made public until 1999 when the Nation published parts of the findings that had been selectively released to religious organisations.
“Devil worshippers are usually wealthy and prominent people who drive expensive cars. Some of them own large commercial enterprises,” the report claimed.
The report said devil worshippers use their wealth to attract new members and gave graphic details of initiation rites including eating human flesh and licking blood.
“Recruitment is clandestine with prospects unaware that they are being lured into a cult. Members are taken to secluded places at night with initiates stripping naked in front of other members,” the commissioners found out.
It went on to say that prayers were conducted by a high priest in a “strange language” while incisions were made in the initiates to draw blood which was mixed with other substances and given to the recruits.
The report said satanism had infiltrated Kenya’s schools and colleges to the extent that it could derail the country’s national objectives.
“If not checked, it could wreck the country’s educational programmes. Headteachers and their staff do not understand the significance of the features of devil worship and regard problems with students as simply poor discipline, ” said the report.
In the case of Onyancha, his former teachers at Kenyatta Mahiga said he was a bright student for the first two years, but his performance declined in the final two. It is not clear if the school made any effort to investigate the cause.
The report said some satanists had even infiltrated the Kenya Students Christian Fellowship to recruit members.

“It was found that some headteachers were lax in control of visitors to schools, some of whom were suspected to be supplying students with drugs,” the report said.
The commissioners recommended: “Since the youth constitute the most important human resource in any nation’s development process, they must therefore be protected from any inherent dangers which are likely to affect their educational, cultural and social well-being.”
Special police
The commission recommended the setting up of a special police force to investigate cultic crimes.
The report said that there was a convergence in the details given by devil worshippers.
“The witnesses had unshakable confidence in what they said despite the mind control techniques applied in initiating them to devil worship,” the report said.
The presence of scars, tattoos and other marks on the bodies of the former members of the cult which they showed to the commission confirmed that they had been members of the cult. Various forms of paraphernalia were found in their possession. Some also spoke of use of symbols, signs, and codes for communication purposes.
“From all the evidence presented, the commission is of the opinion that the cult of devil worship exists in Kenya both in the learning institutions and the society.”

Freemasonry hand in Nairobi’s architecture

March 31, 2008

Freemasonry and Kenyan issues; talk about that and you are likely to elicit varied responses from those listening to you.
A society with secrets, Freemasonry is as much feared by some as it is loved by those who adhere to its tenets.

It teaches the inclusive nature of all religions, among its other controversial characteristics.

You only need to believe in a supreme being.

The beliefs one holds become an opinion among many.
No place typifies the early and contemporary history of Freemasonry in Kenya like the city of Nairobi.
Nairobi was, in its early days, an empty place predominantly occupied by wild animals.
However, the Kikuyu lived to the west of Nairobi; Maasais to the south and Kambas to the east.
At this time, these communities had little contact with the Christian Gospel and therefore were animists – involved in African Traditional Religion.
The original founders of the city were Europeans, Asians, Arabs and Somalis.
The Asians, Arabs, Somalis and the Swahilis brought in Hinduism, Islam, Sikhism and Jainism.
Some of the oldest buildings are from these particular religions.
But it is the European settler community which brought in Freemasonry.
There was a marked increase in the activity of Satanists and other occult activists in the city and country as a whole until a presidential inquiry in demonic worship was established during the reign of retired President Daniel Arap Moi .
The report was handed to the president in 1995 and released in 1999 to religious leaders.
Sources suggest that false religions, cults and occultist activities are headquartered in Nairobi.
The Europeans and settlers who founded Nairobi certainly had Freemasons within their number.
By 1901 there was a Freemasonry lodge in the new town.
In Nairobi: A Jubilee History it is noted that:

Development of Government Road, then known as the Station Road, was sufficiently advanced in 1901 for the Municipal Committee to assume responsibility for its policing, lighting and cleansing. Municipal Notice No. 3 issued in March assessing the annual rentals, gives us an accurate picture of the first businesses contacted in that street. Firstly, there was Rossenrode, MacJohn & Company who built a hotel which was rented at some time by Tommy Wood as a tea room.

T.A. Wood later built White House in Government Road, when it was developed and a Major Rayne took over the whole of his old hotel, a portion of which was used as a Masonic Lodge (emphasis added).

This building, hosting the Masonic lodge was burned in 1905 as a sanitation measure against plague. The next Masonic hall was built where the Central Bank stands. In 1935, the plot opposite the All Saints Cathedral (then called Cathedral of the Highlands) was granted to the Masonic Trustees to put up the current building at the site.

Freemasonry was to play a great role in the development of the city. Since it is a religion based on the ancient and mystery religions of Egypt, there are Masonic symbols and signs all over the city.
From the testimonies of converted Satanists there are also witches’ covens in the city.
They meet in houses and offices.
Because of their secrecy there is no known place they use.
Still on Freemasonry, their influence on Kenyan Christianity would prove to be definitive in several ways.
According to St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church of East Africa’s Moderators report of November 2003 (published in Spark magazine, February 2005) most of the missionaries in late 1800s and early 1900s were missionaries-cum-Freemasons.
Their research, which was undertaken for 10 years focusing on Freemasonry in the Church of Scotland Mission/PCEA, revealed that the missionaries-cum-Freemasons using parish/come mentality bought or were granted land on which they built buildings that extensively incorporated Freemasonry signs and symbols.
Incidentally, Anglican and Roman Catholic Church buildings were not spared.
According to this report, this ensured that Freemasons could manipulate legitimate worship in churches through psychic energy released through Freemasonry signs and symbols.
Their conclusion from the research is that Biblical Christianity is totally incompatible with Freemasonry.
During the 1920s the planning of the municipal town of Nairobi began in earnest.
The government architect during this time was Mr. J.A. Hoogterp who later in the early 1930s resettled in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Sir Herbert Baker, who visited in 1925 and 1926 to handle several on-going and future projects, was a Freemason.
Subsequent plans were designed to make Nairobi the East African headquarters for various organizations.
The comparative plans for the layout of the town were drawn from: Washington D.C, the political, legislative and judicial capital of the USA; Paris, the capital city of France; Cape Town, the legislative capital of South Africa; Pretoria, the executive capital of South Africa; Canberra, the executive capital of Australia; New Delhi, the capital city of India and La Plata, an Argentinean city.
All the above cities are widely recognized as Masonic-designed cities.
A search on the internet also revealed they have Masonic signs and symbols.
In Paris, at Place De La Concorde (originally called Place De La Revolution where priests and Christian nobles were guillotined during the French Revolution) a 246-tonne and 92ft obelisk from Luxor, Egypt was erected in 1835.
It was a gift of the Viceroy of Egypt, Mohamed Ali to the king of France, Charles X.
This obelisk had stood at Luxor, Egypt for 3,500 years.
At Louvre, which is shaped like a Masonic temple with statues of Isi and Manco-Capac, son of the Inca sun-god, there is a large glass pyramid – pyramids are central to Freemasonry.
Washington D.C, on the other hand, has the following symbols within its design – compass, square, Triple Tau, and the upside down pentagram.
The Washington monument is also made in the shape of ancient Egyptian pyramids.

Are there any significant discernible signs or symbols imbedded in the original plan or layout of the city?
The Nairobi Master Plan shows clearly the incorporation of compass and square in the Nairobi Hill.
It also seems that the shape of the Kenya Centre incorporating all the major civic and central government buildings is in the form of an Ankh.
Here is why: The map with the “Kenya Centre” was part of the headline for the East African Standard, October 2, 1948.
Mayor Alderman F.G.R. Woodley (after whom Woodley estate is named) said: “The assent of Government to its preparation marks a definite step in our development … An expanding township had, in fact, reached the stage where a new purpose and directive was imperative, to fit it for the mature role of a Colonial Capital…. It is indeed the key of the door (emphasis added).
An Ankh to ancient Egyptians was the “sign of life”.
It was the symbol of the key which opened the door between the material and the non-material.
Additionally, a letter written by George Power in November 2001 to new masons in the province of Atrim, Ireland, states, “Masonry gives you a key to a door, opens a path to your feet but you are not forced to open the door or follow the path.”
Seasoned observers suggest they see Masonic significance in the architecture, location or positional relationship of the central buildings in the city, especially those representing the political, economic, educational or religious powers of the city and also say Freemasons lay some of the cornerstones.
Such buildings include the Law Courts, City Hall, Parliament Buildings, Kenyatta International Conference Centre, the Holy Family Basilica, the East African Commission, Kenya Railways headquarters, County Hall, Kenya National Archives, Kenya National Museum, Kipande House, Memorial Hall, McMillan Memorial Library, All Saints’ Cathedral and St. Andrew’s PCEA.

The Freemasons Hall situated on Nyerere Road (formerly Kirk Road) was built in 1935, according to Nairobi: Jubilee History 1900-1950.

The first Masonic lodge was on Moi Avenue as early as 1901.

The second building is believed to have been constructed where the Central Bank stands today.

The current building was built on a permanent underground river that runs across Nairobi from the Ngong Hills.

Freemasonry watchers also raise queries about various city parks, barazas, those who commissioned and funded them, artwork in public places and buildings as well as the background and possible significance of the statues and monuments of the city and those they have inspired elsewhere in the country.

Some of the Freemasons – constituting the so-called “South African connection” – who influenced Nairobi and wider Kenya by dint of history are British industrialist Cecil Rhodes and his protégé Sir Herbert Baker; individuals in colonial Kenya influenced by Rhodes include Lord Delamere and Colonel Grogan.
Freemasonry was spread around the world through the British Empire.
It involves every career and every profession.
Despite denials, it is missionary in nature.
According to Masonic Secrets and Rituals Exposed, a book by Peter Ndakwe, Freemasonry played and continues to play a role in the founding and spread of the following: Theosophical Society, Christian Science, Unitarianism, Jehovah Witnesses (its founders were Freemasons), Mormonism (founder Joseph Smith was a high ranking Freemason), ecumenical/interfaith movements (e.g. the World Council of Churches), Satanism (symbols used are drawn from Freemasonry alongside other occult sources) and the New Age Movement.
There is wide membership all over the world, including the who-is-who in global politics, business, media, popular culture and even faith.
The most prominent, and confessed Freemasons in Kenya, include ex-Attorney General Charles Njonjo and former Vice President Moody Awori.
It should be noted that according to Presidential Commission of Inquiry on Devil Worship in Kenya (Daily Nation, August 5, 1999) released to religious organizations (but not to the public) the following towns had Masonic lodges: Mombasa, Nairobi (Freemasons Hall), Nakuru, Nyeri, Kisumu, Eldoret and Kitale.
This means that five of Kenya’s eight provincial headquarters and two key district headquarters – bread baskets of Kenya to be precise – have a Masonic influence.
“Freemasonry works for the destruction of Christianity from within and without,” says a Nairobi-based researcher.
The lead story in the February edition of the New African magazine suggested that secret societies are “the way forward for Africa.”
“Powerful secret societies in the West and elsewhere rule their countries and the world behind the scenes. They meet annually or thereabouts in secret locations. They discuss and take decisions on major policies affecting their countries in the world,” wrote Baffour Ankomah, the magazine’s editor.
He continued: “Their membership cuts across politics, business, media, military, diplomacy, academia, etc. And they gel things done as planned. Being part of the same world, doesn’t Africa also need its own secret societies (multiples of them, minus their sinister side) to defend its interests globally and speed up its development?”
Secret societies he looked into include Skulls and Bones, The Bohemian Grove, The Round Table, The Inquiry, Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission, Bilderberg and Afrikaner Broderbund.
“They are all variations of Freemasonry,” notes another Kenyan watcher of secret societies.
And he adds: “We need to take stock of their role and influence in our past, present and future history. We especially need to assess their influence in shaping the Kenya we have at the moment.”
*I belong to no secret society myself, and yearn to join none. Am also greatly indebted to the researchers who have allowed me to quote them so generously in this article.

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CIA and genesis of Jaramogi’s and Raila’s ‘rebellious’ streak

http://www.afroarticles.com/article-dashboard/Article/CIA-and-genesis-of-Jaramogi-s-and-Raila-s–rebellious–streak/116598

By: Douglas Okwatch
[ Posted On: 2008-08-01 ]

The ‘isolate and crush’ tactics America’s Central Intelligence Agency used to alienate Mzee Jomo Kenyatta in favour of Tom Mboya (TJ) and then tame Jaramogi Oginga Odinga have been deployed against Prime minister Raila Odinga.

Founding president Kenyatta and Tom Mboya at Lancaster House, London in 1962. Today, 39 years after a lone gunman shot Mboya dead in Nairobi, evidence of CIA’s role in TJ’s meteoric rise and how this later planted the seeds for his assassination is
almost incontrovertible, The Saturday Standard can reveal.

How this ideology was effectively used to consign Jaramogi and later his son Raila to a near perpetual life in the Opposition has also come out.

Fresh details show that the fate of Raila and that of his father, the doyen of opposition politics, may have been sealed as early as June 1965. A heavily bankrolled CIA spy machine, initially deployed to prop up TJ, while keeping Kenyatta in check, spurned the plot.

By labelling him demagogue, a tag that would follow him through his entire political career, a large chunk of which he spent in the Opposition, the isolation of Jaramogi had begun. The Readers Digest Illustrated Oxford Dictionary defines demagogue as a political agitator appealing to the basest instincts of a mob. This portrayed Jaramogi as primitive and violent. “….Odinga and the demagogues are out of the office. The men moving up…. are unemotional, hardworking and practical minded,” is how an excerpt from an undated issue of the Ramparts, which forms part of an assortment of previously top secret materials now declassified, refers to Odinga.

This was soon after Jaramogi’s powers, as the President’s principal assistant, were clipped through a constitutional amendment forced through by Kenyatta. It is believed the move was touched off by CIA, which had laid the ground for successive governments to cast Odinga as a pariah.

The stage for future selective profiling of his son by successive governments had also been set.

It can be recalled that Raila, now PM following a power sharing deal brokered by former UN secretary general Dr Kofi Annan to stop post-election crisis, was also labelled ‘dangerous’ by President Kibaki’s Party of National Unity. The Ford-Kenya chairman Mr Musikari Kombo, who claimed the initials of Raila’s Orange Democratic Movement, stood for ‘One Dangerous Man’, also bandied around this tag.

The Lang’ata MP is also said to attract mania (extreme enthusiasm and admiration) and phobia (intense fear) in equal measure, at least according to former Vice President Michael Kijana Wamalwa.

American ideology

But his detractors have equated this near cult following that he enjoys to demagoguery. Over the years, ‘scaremongers’ seeking to curtail his ascendancy have created the impression that he appeals to mobs.

The 2007 smear campaign script may as well have been pulled out of the bag of Mr William Attwood’s, the US ambassador to Kenya at the height of the CIA’s ‘isolate and crush’ policy.

It seems a paradox the US should have been responsible for the dissemination of this ideology. Its enduring legacy is that it sowed the very first seeds of intolerance and dictatorship in Kenya.

Mboya at his wedding with Pamela.

Today, the CIA may no longer be the vanguard agency. But the momentum in the ideology that was set in motion continues. The Ramparts, an American political and literary magazine published in the 1960s and 1970s but was shut in 1975, adds that there is even continuity in the personnel that fostered it. Ramparts forms part of previously top secret materials on the assassination of Mboya stored at the Kenya National Archives. The materials have since been declassified.

The real plot against Mboya and Odinga began in June 1964, when Attwood met with Kenyatta, according to Ramparts. It was agreed that Western labour groups stop funding Mboya and his Kenya Federation of Labour (KFL) movement.

“For balance, Kenyatta assured him that Russian and Chinese aid to the leftist leader, Vice President Oginga Odinga would also end,” Ramparts reports indicate.

Simultaneously, the CIA was making appropriate shifts in its operations, throwing its resources into a new kind of vehicle, which would embrace the Kenyan political mainstream, while isolating the left and setting it up for destruction by Kenyatta.

In one of its most revealing excerpts, Ramparts reveals how Attwood, at the instigation of the CIA, encouraged Kenyatta to move against Odinga, cementing the deal he had negotiated with the Americans. “The Constitution was revised to strip Jaramogi’s vice presidential office of its powers; his post in Kenyatta’s political party was eliminated, his trade union base (competitive with KFL) reorganised out of existence.”

When he resigned in protest, he had just signed his own passport to political limbo. Odinga had successfully been shut out. Inadvertently, the script for future presidents and how to deal with their opponents had been written.

It may, therefore, begin to become clearer why Thomas Joseph Mboya had to die, why Jaramogi Oginga Odinga would spend the rest of his life in the Opposition even after Kenyatta’s demise, and why Raila is where he is today. In a word, successive independence governments quickly adopted this ideology.

In the book Raila Odinga: An Enigma in Kenyan Politics, Dr Babafemi Adesina Badejo, Raila’s profiler, traced the journey of the PM as he negotiated the treacherous political terrain of post-independence Kenya.

In a review of the book, Dr Jeremy Matam Farrall of University of Tasmania, Australia, appreciates that Kenya’s recent history read like a Shakespearian tale, full of dramatic intrigue, intricate conspiracies and king-making plots. He only fails to add — thanks to the CIA

The book reveals how the political scene came to be dominated by two figures in particular – Jomo Kenyatta, the country’s inaugural President, and Daniel Toroitich arap Moi, who was Kenyatta’s successor.

Tyrannical era

Kenyatta and Moi held sway for four decades, from Independence in 1963 till 2002.

When political pluralism knocked on the door, Kenyatta and Moi used all the tools at their disposal to consolidate power and marginalise political opponents, Farrall states in his review. He says that Kenyatta pursued policies that turned Kenya into a de facto one-party state under the control of the Kenya African National Union (Kanu), while Moi went a step further, by passing a law that made Kenya a de jure (by law) one-party state.

Political rivals therefore had to join Kanu or risk being imprisoned for ‘dissent’. But throughout these tumultuous times, brave individuals and groups continued to struggle, at considerable personal cost.

Like Mboya and his father, Raila had to fight various damaging and isolationist political labels like ‘dangerous’ and ‘communist’, battles whose foundations had been laid by the CIA. Raila has been branded communist because he was drawn to socialist activism during the Cold War.

Under Kanu Raila was repeatedly subjected to this ‘isolate and crush’ policy, which persisted throughout the 1980s, making him one of the harshest critics of the Moi regime. He was detained over his role in the abortive 1982 coup and was no stranger at the notorious Nyati House torture chambers.

Later as Kanu’s reign edged to a close, Raila first embraced Kanu before a bitter fallout forced him into an alliance with President Kibaki under the National Rainbow Coalition.

Systematically, sidelined by yet another President, Raila campaigned against Kibaki’s proposals for constitutional reform, securing a resounding ‘No!’ vote in the November 2005 referendum.

Badejo explored Jaramogi’s and Raila’s Luo heritage, describing the manner in which their ethnic origins both furthered and restricted their nationalist political ambitions. In so doing, the book illustrates how ethnicity has often been employed as tool of fear and divisiveness to prevent challenges to the power of the dominant Kenyan political elite.

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12/10/2002 Entry: “Africans Declare War on Freemasons”

Africans Declare War on Freemasons
Thousands vow to eradicate shadowy cult
by voxfux
Amidst a growing global awareness of the problem of the worlds covert religious cults, mainstream Anglican, Catholic and Presbyterian churches in Africa have joined with leaders of Kenya’s Mungiki youth movement in calling for the abolition of the Freemasons. The Parish Pastor of Nairobi’s St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church of East Africa (PCEA), one of the oldest traditional churches in Kenya, said recently that Freemasonry needs to be abolished, citing, “It has no moral standing in the wider community,” he said.
The Mungiki movement with some 4 million followers, has accused the Freemasons of involvement in the disappearance of children and a mysterious string of murders that have recently rocked Nairobi.

The pronouncement came after a consortium of churches, during an interdenominational conference, called for the total ban on Freemasonry in Kenya. The Nanyuki conference, attended by officials of the National Council of Churches, Evangelical Fellowship of Kenya, the Catholic Church and representatives of the Independent Churches of Kenya, lashed out at the Freemason society, accusing it of “engaging in undercurrent activities.” The churches pointed out that Freemasonry is a secretive society whose activities may not be good to the welfare of the human society.
On 3 September, Rev. Samuel Muli of the Church of Christ led a group of demonstrators in the city as part of the ongoing campaigns to outlaw the Freemansonry in the East African country. Accusing the organisation of clandestine operations, Muli who is also the director of Evangelism Association – a consortium of evangelical revival churches, said Freemasonry is a threat to the human race and thus the need to have it abolished.
It’s no wonder there’s a growing backlash against the covert western based quasi religious, quasi military cults – many Africans believe the recent the Paradise Hotel bombing, was in fact perpetrated by another quasi religious, quasi military group – the CIA (with Mossad assistance.)
And so the secret societies, such as the Jesuits, the Freemasons and the Knights of Malta, which represent the west, continue to rampage around the world causing enumerable blunders, screw-ups and miscalculations – all in the name of each and every citizen in the west – and it will be the ordinary citizen who will pay the price for the mischief of our secret cults.
voxfux
vox–“blunders, screw-ups, miscalculations” and “mischief”–? Odd choice of words…
Peace and Freedom, kathleen
VOX COMMENT ANNOTATION: The reason I choose to use these terms instead of my typical terms for such groups, murders, assassins, criminals, is because I believe that the majority of the members of these groups never actually rise to the level where such atrocities occur. They are merely the foot soldiers – the worker ants, if you will. I always reserve my most scathing vitriol for their leadership only. For it is the leadership alone in these groups who has the knowledge of the dark workings of these groups NEVER the lower level workers and supporters. The lower level initiates in these orders is for dues only and to do the “good” deeds of these front groups. But these lower level initiates are not aware that these groups are merely front groups for a higher power – the billionaire bankers and industrialists who secretly control every one of these groups – every one of them.
vox

Posted by kathleen beatty @ 12/10/2002 10:09 PM EST

http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Misc/Graham3.htm

THE SUBJECT WHICH TERRIFIES BILLY GRAHAM
Billy Graham is a Freemason:
We also have reports from Australia and from a converted 33rd degree Freemason named Jim S____, that Graham is a 33rd degree Freemason. Jim S____ was initiated into Freemasonry with Billy Graham and former President Ronald Reagan at the Washington DC lodge.
Freemasonry knows who its goddess is. It is Lilith, the primal goddess of Sumer and Babel. This goddess is said by Kabbalist Jews to be the wife of Satan, but she is now shacking up with Elohim, and when Elohim gets tired of her He will go back to Shakhina, His real wife. At that time the Kingdom will be established by Messiah, whom the Freemasons claim is the vaginal alter to Elohim, the Phallic god. Lillith is the symbol at the front of all Masonic temples and has the words under it, “We come to Worship.” Lillith is represented by the inverted pentagram star as the logo of the Eastern Star of Freemasonry’s ladies’ club.
We do not know if Mrs.Graham is a member of the Eastern Star, so the contrary must be assumed.
A reader of this page in the USA has also managed to acquire hard evidence to prove Billy Graham is a 33rd degree Freemason. If Billy Graham is a 33rd degree Freemason, and I personally believe the converts out of Freemasonry who claim this, then his god is the male organ. That is the doctrine of Freemasonry from the Prince Adept Degree and up. Also, at the 30th degree and up, Lucifer has been exalted above Christ since circa 1894. Here is the quote from Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike, Supreme Pontiff, Southeast District, North Carolina, 1890. This is the definitive doctrinal manual found in virtually every Masonic lodge in the world.
Morals and Dogma, 28th Degree, called Knight of the Sun, or Prince Adept, Page771-772

Devil Worship Alive in Kenya: Report
Xinhua News Agency
August 4, 1999
NAIROBI, KENYA – Devil worship is widespread in Kenya with rituals of human sacrifice and nudity in prayers, the Daily Nation newspaper Wednesday quoted a report of survey as saying.
The report titled the Presidential Commission of Inquiry into the Cult of Devil Worship in Kenya, was recently released to religious organizations but never made public, the paper said.
The report, compiled by prominent religious leaders and presented to President Daniel Arap Moi in 1995, claims that the tentacles of evil sects reached into schools, churches and even government offices with an assistant minister and his wife cited as known Satanists.
The report also says that such groups, which are secretive, destructive and deliberate, “generally” have the rituals including the presence of snakes, drinking human blood, eating human flesh, human sacrifice, sexual abuse and rape. A group named Freemasons allegedly prayed at night, in the dark and nudity, and walked backwards into their temple after completing their rituals, according to the report.
The report also makes recommendations including the establishment of a special police unit to probe occult activities like ritual killings and other crimes.

Benny Hinn’s Wife Files for Divorce
ORANGE, Calif. — The wife of televangelist Benny Hinn has filed for divorce from the high-profile pastor, whose reputation as an advocate of prosperity gospel has attracted millions of followers and criticism from lawmakers and watchdog groups over his lavish lifestyle.
Suzanne Hinn filed the papers in Orange County Superior Court on Feb. 1, citing irreconcilable differences, after more than 30 years of marriage. The papers note the two separated on Jan. 26 and that Hinn has been living in Dana Point, a wealthy coastal community in southern Orange County.
“Pastor Benny Hinn and his immediate family were shocked and saddened to learn of this news without any previous notice,” Benny Hinn Ministries said Thursday in a statement. “Although Pastor Hinn has faithfully endeavored to bring healing to their relationship, those efforts failed and were met with the petition for divorce that was filed without notice.”
Hinn is one of the best known advocates of the prosperity gospel, which teaches that Christians who are right with God will be rewarded with wealth and health in this lifetime.
Devil’s work?
Charles Kyalema, a marketing executive, as well couldn’t believe the news. “I think God is uncovering what we have been doing in the dark, what else do you think is happening? Or maybe, the devil is trying to see that he rips the church apart. Look at what is happening in our local churches, pastors involved in scandal after scandal. It is the devil’s desire that the church splits up,” he said.
While the above found the news shocking, others didn’t.

Mr Steven Kibuuka, a journalist said; “I am not surprised, those preachers live such stressful lives, they have to keep up appearances making people think that they are holy. This cannot go on forever.”

Who is Benny Hinn
Toufik Benedictus “Benny” Hinn was born on December 3, 1952.
Soon after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Hinn’s family emigrated to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, where he attended but later prematurely left the Georges Vanier Secondary School.
Upon moving to the United States, Hinn travelled to Orlando, Florida, where he founded the Orlando Christian Center in 1983.
His thirty-minute TV program This Is Your Day, is among the world’s most-watched Christian programs, seen on various Christian television networks And Agency.

Kenneth Copeland 33rd Degree
Freemason Exposed

In this article we will attempt for the first time to unveil the truth of Kenneth Copeland’s Masonic membership. As Kenneth is a closet, secret Freemason who does not want anyone to know this truth, it will be a involving task that needs to look deeply into any specific clues. It is a trademark of most proud Masons to leave key symbols veiled into pictures and also to use various keywords in speeches or secret handshakes. Proof of this can be found in Masonry’s most common definition of itself as being ‘Freemasonry is a peculiar system of Morality, veiled in Allegory, and illustrated by Symbols.’ This is taken directly from the second degree initiation and evidence that it is still currently used was proven to me recently when I attended a Masonic open day and heard that same description. The application of this quote in regards to Copeland will be discussed below.

* Kenneth Copeland started his ministry under Oral Roberts 33rd Degree Freemason as a pilot.
Kenneth was on TV sometime around June 1997 praising Oral Roberts as they are close friends.
Evidence that Oral Roberts is a 33rd Degree Freemason will be compiled and published as soon as possible.
* Kenneth Copeland chants the words “I AM” which is a Masonic initiation term.
“And I say this with all respect, so that it don’t upset you too bad. But I say it anyway: When I read in the Bible where He says, “I AM,” I just smile and say, “Yes, I AM, too.” Believers Voice of Victory broadcast July 9 1987
During the ceremonies of the Masonic ritual for the Royal Arch degree, the candidate is asked, “Brother Inspector, what are you?” and he replies, “I AM THAT I AM.”
When Jesus told the jews before Abraham was “I AM” he was claming to be the God of Moses who went by that name. This is why they tried to kill him immediately. Kenneth is claiming to be a God.

33rd Degree Freemason Robert Schuller also endorses his followers to chant “I AM”
“The most effective mantras employ the “M” sound. You can get the feel of it by repeating the words, “I am, I am,” many times over…. Transendental Meditation or TM… is not a religion nor is it necessarily anti-Christian.”
Peace of Mind Through Possibility Thinking, pp. 131-32

Benny Hinn whom I suspect is a Freemason, also tells Christians to chant “I AM.”
“Don’t tell me you have Jesus. You are everything He was and everything He is and ever shall be…..Don’t say, ‘I have.’ Say , ‘I AM, I AM, I AM, I AM, I AM.’ Our Position in Christ #2-The Word Made Flesh audiotape Side 2 1991

* Kenneth Copeland has stated that Jehovah means Half Male/ Half Female and that God is as much female as he is male.
He amplifies this strange teaching by also saying that Adam was originally half male and half female.
According to the book “The Secret Teachings Of Freemasonry” by Gordon Mohr this is exactly what the Masonic Lodge teaches:- (on pages 107-108)

In his first initiation stages he (the Freemason) learns: 1 – That the rite of initation for Apprentice Masons represents in dramatic fashion the origin or birth of Nature’s god – the Great All. It signifies the non-existence of a supernatural person God, such as that of Christianity. It signifies that the two principles of “matter” and “form”, “male” and “female,” are always eternally generating,” (reproducing). It looks on God as a hermaphrodite, and creation as the beginning of the “generation process.” Taken from: Speculative Masonry, by Brother J. Yorke, Grand Master of the Ancient Rite pages 3 & 54

2 – The initation rite into the Second Degree, represents the moral condition of nature’s god, always in labor, always reproducing. Again it looks on God as hermaphroditic, and states that his name JEHOVAH, means “generation.” Meaning to say, HE-SHE, the two sexes in one. From Speculative Masonry page 14 & Mackey’s Lexion pages 126-129

The dual principle of “male” and “female” is represented by the “square and compass.” The “compass” represents OSIRIS, the male god of the Egyptians, while the “square” is the symbol representing ISIS, the female goddess of Egypt – both are sexual symbols. Taken from: Ragon’s Cours. Philosophique page 102
This reference to the square and compass is significant as Copeland has placed these symbols on one of his tape covers.

* Copeland teaches similar things that the early Mormons leaders who were also Freemasons taught.
While the Mormons teach that God lives on a planet near the star Kolob, Copeland says that his hermaphroditic god also lives on a Mother Planet:-

“Heaven has a north and a south and an east and a west. Consequently, it must be a planet.”
Spirit, Soul and Body I 1985 audiotape #01-0601, side 1

“You don’t think earth was first, do you? Huh? Well, you don’t think that God made man in His image, and then made earth in some other image? There is not anything under this whole sun that’s new. Are you hearing what I’m saying? This is all a copy. It’s a copy of home. It’s a copy of the Mother Planet. Where God lives, He made a little one just like His and put us on it.” Following the Faith of Abraham I, 1989 audiotape #01-3001, side 1

Compare what Freemason-Mormon Brigham Young stated “Adam is our father and our God” with Copeland’s quote:-
“Adam, in the Garden of Eden, was God manifested in the flesh.”
Following the Faith of Abraham I, side 1

Also compare Freemason-Mormon founder Joseph Smith’s teaching that if you were to see God today “you would see him like a man in form – like yourselves in all the person, image, and very form as a man.” with Copeland’s following description of his god:-

Copeland decribes God as “a being that is very uncanny the way he’s very much like you and me. A being that stands somewhere around 6’2″, 6’3″, that weighs somewhere in the neighbourhood of a couple of hundred pounds or a little better, has a span of 9 inches across.” Spirit, Soul and Body I audiotape Side 1 1985

God spoke Adam into existence in authority with words. These words struck Adam’s body in the face. His body and God were exactly the same size.”
Holy Bible, Kenneth Copeland Reference Edition 1991, 45, emphasis in original

“[Adam] was the copy, looked just like [God]. If you stood Adam upside God, they look exactly alike. If you stood Jesus and Adam side by side, they would look and sound exactly alike.”
Authority of the Believer IV 1987, audiotape #01-0304, side 1

On the cover for Copeland’s audiotape series entitled ‘How To Build Your Firm Foundation.’ Remember the main definition of Masonry as being ‘Freemasonry is a peculiar system of Morality, veiled in Allegory, and illustrated by Symbols.’
This is exactly what we have right here. Copeland has placed the chief Masonic symbols of the square and compass here that to most people the true meaning is veiled in an allegorical style.

ALLEGORY, fictional literary narrative or artistic expression that conveys a symbolic meaning parallel to but distinct from, and more important than, the literal meaning. Allegory has also been defined as an extended metaphor. The symbolic meaning is usually expressed through personifications and other symbols. In art, an allegorical painting or sculpture is one that has a symbolic meaning underlying the surface image.
More symbols of Freemasonry are incorporated into Copeland’s ‘Shout’ magazine for kids. Around Kenneth’s neck is an eagle above an inverted triangle. I have seen this symbol on a Masonic certificate before. The female has an inverted 5 pointed star placed on her shirt. This symbol represents the ‘Order of the Eastern Star’ which is a Masonic order for women! Is this a coincidence? Now Copeland has placed the main symbols of Masonry and the Eastern Star on his covers. When 33rd Degree Freemason Robert Schuller wanted to express his secret membership in the Lodge he used the 33rd Degree symbol of a double headed eagle and sent it out to many people without them realizing what he was declaring to his Masonic brothers worldwide. 33rd Degree Freemason Oral Roberts used the inverted triangle in his University logo which has a hidden Masonic design to it. Another odd element is that the Freemasons veiled the symbols of the square, compass, inverted star and triangle into the street layout of Washington D.C. These are the 3 symbols that Copeland has placed on the 2 mentioned covers. As I write this he is also presently in Washington conducting a rally.
To summarize:-
Kenneth Copeland started work under a 33rd Degree Freemason whom he has a strong friendship with. He claims to be ‘I AM’ which is a Masonic initiation term. His teaching about his hermaphroditic god match up exactly with what Masonry teaches and his teaching on the size and likeness of God match up with what the early Freemason-Mormon leaders also taught. Add to this the veiled symbols of Freemasonry that he has placed on 2 covers, possibly more.

I would have never suspected Copeland of being a Freemason if it were not for his heretical teachings including his belief that God was gang raped and sodomised by homosexual Roman soldiers. If so then God’s blood would be impure and unable to redeem. Please click on the link below for more information on Copeland’s false teachings and strange beliefs.

The deciding factor to publish this information came after a friend of mine received information from an ex-Mason that stated that he has been in attendance in Masonic meeting when Copeland was present. At the moment this man wishes not to reveal himself. He possibly has some firm documented evidence that we will try to obtain. I do not know who this man is but my friend is trying to obtain more information. Another thing that helped verify these facts is a research project in the US that has gained some proof of these allegations. I am currently trying to contact these men so I can add their research to this page. What I do know is that they are both ‘Born-again’ Christian ministers whose credentials have been checked out. I will amplify on these details later.

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International Religious Freedom Report 2004
Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor

The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. The Constitution does not provide for an official state religion.
There was no change in the status of respect for religious freedom during the period covered by this report, and government policy continued to contribute to the generally free practice of religion. However, some Muslim leaders have charged that the Government is hostile toward Muslims.
There generally is a great level of tolerance among religious groups; however, some Muslims continued to perceive themselves to be treated as second-class citizens in a predominantly Christian country. There are some interfaith movements and political alliances, but one of the main alliances, the Ufungamano Initiative, faltered during the period covered by this report.
The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government as part of its overall policy to promote human rights.

Section I. Religious Demography
The country has a total area of approximately 225,000 square miles, and its population is approximately 32 million, of which approximately 88 percent lives in rural areas. According to official government figures, Protestants are the largest religious group, representing approximately 38 percent of the population. Approximately 28 percent of the population is Roman Catholic. Seven percent of the population practices Islam, 1 percent practices Hinduism, and the remainder follows various traditional indigenous religions or offshoots of Christian religions. There are very few atheists. Muslim groups dispute government estimates; most often they claim to represent 15 to 20 percent of the population, sometimes even higher.
Members of most religious groups are active throughout the country. Certain religions dominate particular regions. For example, Muslims dominate North Eastern Province, where the population is chiefly Somali. Muslims also dominate Coast Province, except for the western areas of the province, which predominantly are Christian. Eastern Province is approximately 50 percent Muslim (mostly in the north) and 50 percent Christian (mostly in the south). The rest of the country largely is Christian, with some persons practicing traditional indigenous religions.
Many foreign missionary groups operate in the country, the largest of which are the African Inland Mission (Evangelical Protestant), the Southern Baptist Church, the Pentecostal Assembly of Kenya, and the Church Missionary Society of Britain (Anglican). The Government generally has permitted these missionary groups to assist the poor and to operate schools and hospitals. The missionaries openly promote their religious beliefs and have encountered little resistance.

Section II. Status of Religious Freedom

Legal Policy/Framework
The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, and the Government generally respects this right in practice. The Government at all levels strives to protect this right in full and does not tolerate its abuse, either by governmental or private actors. However, Muslim and Christian groups remain engaged in a long-standing debate over whether special Islamic courts should be recognized in the country’s Constitution. The Government is currently involved in this dispute in its efforts to write a new constitution. Religious groups have also voiced their concerns over a proposed anti-terrorism bill and over government assistance to Islamic schools.
The Constitution and the Kadhis’ Courts Act of 1967 established a venue to have certain types of civil cases adjudicated based on Islamic law. Article 66 of the Constitution provides for the establishment of Kadhis’ courts where “all the parties profess the Muslim religion” in suits relating to “questions of Muslim law relating to personal status, marriage, divorce or inheritance.” Articles 65 and 67 make it clear that Kadhis’ courts are “subordinate” courts, meaning that the High Court has jurisdiction to supervise any civil or criminal proceedings before a subordinate court. It also indicates that if a constitutional or legal interpretation question arises in a Kadhis’ court proceeding, any party involved in the proceedings may refer the question to the High Court. For example, in May, the High Court overruled a decision made by the Chief Khadi (Islamic judge) that a matrimonial dispute in the town of Kisumu in the western part of the country should be transferred to Mombasa on the Indian Ocean coast.
In March, the Constitution of Kenya Review Commission (CKRC), which began its work in April 2003, completed a new draft constitution. Article 9 of the draft constitution states that the State and religion shall be separate, that there shall be no state religion, and that the State shall treat all religions equally. Article 48 provides for freedom of religious expression, protects the rights of religious communities to provide religious instruction in places of education, proscribes discrimination in employment based on religious belief, and prohibits any person from compelling another person to engage in any practice that is contrary to that person’s religious beliefs. Articles 198 and 199 retain Kadhis’ courts as subordinate courts with essentially the same jurisdictions as are included in the Constitution. However, unlike in the current Constitution, the draft constitution does not mention a minimum or maximum number of Kadhis’ courts, nor does it specify how the Kadhis will be selected.
The political debate over the draft constitution has revolved mainly around issues such as the role of the executive branch and the devolution of authority to sub-national units of government. The articles regarding the Kadhis’ courts have highlighted latent religious animosities between the country’s Muslims and Christians. In 2003, an interfaith group launched a separate initiative to draft a constitution. This effort, called the Ufungamano Initiative, originally included both Christians and Muslims. However, when the Muslims realized that the Christians opposed including Kadhis’ courts in the new constitution, they withdrew.
Some Christian clerics argue that Muslims will be given preferential treatment if Kadhis’ courts are incorporated into the new constitution. The National Christian Council of Kenya (NCCK) states that it is not opposed to Kadhis’ courts as such. They agree that Parliament should have the right to establish these courts or any other subordinate court. However, they argue that including Kadhis’ courts in the constitution would grant formal recognition to Islam, which contradicts the provisions of Article 9 in the draft constitution proscribing the establishment of any religion. Some opponents of Kadhis’ courts also contend that the courts’ inclusion in the constitution could pave the way for the full application of Shari’a law in the country. In May 2004, a group of 34 Protestant churches, allied under the name of the Federation of Churches in Kenya, threatened to take legal action to expunge Article 66, which establishes Khadis’ courts, from the draft constitution. The Catholic Church believes that Parliament should adopt the provisions of the draft constitution that are not in dispute and subject contentious issues to a popular referendum.
Proponents of Kadhis’ courts argue that other religious groups could establish their own courts if necessary. Some also argue that the Kadhis’ courts should be seen as a matter concerning the judiciary and not religion. They further contend that the recognition of Kadhis’ courts was a condition for the integration of the coastal strip at the time of independence and question why opponents now object to this system. Moreover, they argue that the proposed constitutional provision does not signify the full application of Shari’a law in the future. In May 2004, two leading Muslim groups, the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya and the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims, threatened protests and strikes if the draft constitution was not adopted in its entirety. By the end of this reporting period, the effort to adopt a new constitution remained stalemated.
In April 2003, the Government published the Suppression of Terrorism Bill. Many observers, including the NCCK, found the bill objectionable on human rights grounds, arguing that it contains provisions that violate the Constitution. Muslim leaders argue that the bill specifically targets members of their community. In June 2004, the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya, referring to the arrest of some 30 Muslims on terrorism charges, accused the Government of targeting Muslims and applying the bill even before it is enacted. In 2003, the Law Society of Kenya produced an amended version of the bill that eliminated or revised the articles to which the religious and human rights groups most objected. However, in June 2004, the Council of Imams and Preachers called for rejection of even the amended version of the bill. The Suppression of Terrorism Bill has not yet been voted on in Parliament, and the debate was still ongoing at the end of the period covered by this report.
The Government requires new religious organizations to register with the Registrar of Societies, which reports to the Office of the Attorney General. The Government allows traditional indigenous religious organizations to register, although many choose not to do so. Once registered, religious organizations may apply for tax-free status, including exemption from paying duty on imported goods. Applications for tax exemptions are not automatic but are granted on a case-by-case basis. Some religious institutions accused the former Government of revoking their exempt status on value added tax and custom duties. For example, the Presbyterian Church of East Africa claims that the Government revoked its exempt status because the Church supported opposition political groups.
Religious organizations generally receive equal treatment from the Government; however, some small splinter groups have found it difficult to register when the Government views them as an offshoot of a larger religious organization. The Government has not granted registration to the Tent of the Living God, a small Kikuyu religious order banned during the single-party era (pre-1992). However, since the arrival of a multiparty system in 1992, membership in the Tent of the Living God has decreased greatly. It is still not registered and has made no recent attempts to do so.
Political parties also must register with the Government. Despite 1997 reforms and the subsequent registration of a large number of political parties, the Government has refused to reverse its 1992 denial of registration of the Islamic Party of Kenya (IPK) on the grounds that the IPK, which in 1992 was involved in a number of violent confrontations with police, offended the “secular principle” of the Constitution.
In the areas of the country that are largely Christian, there are morning prayers in public schools. All children participate in the assembly but are not punished if they remain silent during prayers. The Government and some churches frequently disagree over school management when both the Government and the church have a stake in the school. Often churches provide the land and the buildings for the schools, while the Government provides the teachers. This has led to disputes over school management and occasionally the closing of schools. In its May 2003 report on religious freedom in public schools, the Standing Committee on Human Rights found that the Africa Inland Church (AIC) infringed on students’ freedom of worship. The AIC sponsors a number of schools, some of which are public schools. The report found that the AIC compelled all students admitted to its schools to adhere to AIC beliefs, which contradicts the Constitution.
Islamic institutions sponsor a few public schools that the Government supports through the employment of teachers and the provision of equipment. Some members of the Muslim community have expressed concern that the lack of a university in Coast Province, which has a large Muslim population, hinders educational opportunities for Muslims; however, higher education is available to Muslim students in other regions of the country. Throughout the period covered by this report, some Muslims voiced opposition to a planned government program, financed in part by the U.S. Government, which would work with Islamic schools to improve the quality and efficiency of primary education. They charge that the aim of this program is to dilute the teaching of true Islam.
The Ministry of Transport and Communication has approved regional radio and television broadcast licenses for several Muslim and Christian groups. The petition of the Catholic Church for a national frequency was not resolved by the end of the period covered by this report. To date, no media organization except the government-owned Kenya Broadcasting Corporation has been granted a national frequency. Rather, some organizations–both secular and religious–have been assigned a series of regional broadcasting frequencies to give their broadcasts national reach. These include Radio Iqra (Muslim), Radio Baraka FM Radio (interdenominational Christian), Waumini (Catholic), Hope FM (Pentecostal), and Family Radio FM (interdenominational Christian). In addition, HOPE Radio of the Pentecostal Church of East Africa began broadcasting in Nairobi in 2003.
The Government celebrates several religious holidays as national holidays, including Christmas, Good Friday, Easter Monday, Idd-ul-Fitr, and Idd?ul-Azha.

Restrictions on Religious Freedom
Government policy and practice contributed to the generally free practice of religion. However, some Muslim leaders have charged that the Government is hostile toward Muslims. They complain that non-Muslims receive better treatment when requesting citizenship documents. According to these leaders, authorities more rigorously scrutinize the identification cards of persons with Muslim surnames and require them to present additional documentation of their citizenship, such as birth certificates of parents and, sometimes, grandparents. The Government has singled out the overwhelmingly Muslim ethnic Somalis as the only group whose members are issued and required to carry an additional form of identification to prove that they are citizens. They must produce upon demand their national identification card and a second identification card verifying screening. Both cards also are required to apply for a passport. The Government says that this heightened scrutiny is an attempt to deter illegal immigration, rather than to discriminate against the religious affiliation of ethnic Somalis. Muslim leaders claim that since the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, the November 2002 terrorist attacks in Mombasa, and terrorist attacks elsewhere, government discrimination against their community has worsened, especially demands for identity documents.
In the past, the misuse of authority by mainly Christian security forces in the northeast, which largely is Muslim and in which banditry is widespread, had contributed to Muslim mistrust. However, during the period covered by this report, there continued to be greater inclusion of Muslims in security forces and provincial administration. For example, in April the Government named Brigadier General Mohammed Hussein Ali, a Muslim, as the new Commissioner of Police.
The former Minister of Trade and Industry Nicholas Biwott also has been engaged in a public dispute since 1998 with the Catholic Church over an intended project to use public land to create an educational facility to be named after the Minister’s mother. Father Michael Rop, who is in charge of the local parish where the facility is proposed, protested the appropriation of public land to honor Biwott’s mother. The Bishop of Eldoret, Cornelius Korir, accused Biwott of harassing Father Rop and his supporters and claimed that the former Minister was persecuting the church and its followers. The dispute culminated in a confrontation between Biwott’s supporters and the Catholic Church in July 2001 when armed police attempted to block Bishop Korir from entering Father Rop’s church. Biwott has vowed to continue with the building project. Church supporters who oppose the project destroyed the site’s perimeter fencing in 2003. The dispute was ongoing at the end of the period covered by this report.
In June 2002, in Busia, a district officer who was a Seventh-day Adventist was suspended for refusing to perform his official duties on Madaraka Day, which fell on a Saturday. During the same month, in Nandi, the Board of Governors suspended 10 high school students, who were Seventh-day Adventists, for refusing to take a test on a Saturday. Supporters of the students challenged the board’s decision, arguing that the school did not have the constitutional right to deny individuals the right to observe their religious practices. No further information was available at the end of the period covered by this report.
In May 2004, members of the Seventh-day Adventist Church claimed that they were among hundreds of workers that were fired by private companies operating in Nairobi’s Export Processing Zone. The church members claimed that they lost their jobs because they refused to work on Saturdays.
Unlike in the past, there were no reports that religious meetings at the Emmanuel Church of God were restricted.
The Government historically has been unsympathetic to tribal religious groups that have engendered protest movements. The Government frequently harassed and periodically arrested and detained members of the Mungiki, a cultural and political movement based in part on Kikuyu ethnic traditions, which espouses political views and cultural practices that are controversial in mainstream society. While religion may have played a role in the formation of the Mungiki, observers believe that it is no longer a key characteristic of the group. The Mungiki do not adhere to any single religion, and members are free to choose their own religion; the group includes Muslims and Christians. The number of Mungiki members is unknown, but the group draws a significant following from the unemployed and other marginalized segments of society.
Mungiki members have been accused of extortion, killings, illegal drug sales, and for-hire vigilantism. In February, a group of Mungiki defectors charged a Mungiki leader with kidnapping another defector. In March, the police arrested 30 Mungiki members, including the alleged kidnapper, charging them with various crimes, including the killings of group defectors. Subsequently, the police rounded up 100 additional persons alleged to be Mungiki, including 2 police officers, and later 83 were released. In May and June, one of the released prisoners was beheaded and a young woman with alleged connections to Mungiki was also killed. Observers believe that as many as 14 killings or disappearances of former Mungiki in the period from February to June 2004 were meant to punish Mungiki defectors. At the end of the period covered by the report, a former Member of Parliament (M.P.) and 13 alleged Mungiki were in detention on charges that they murdered 10 persons in January 2003. The killings allegedly occurred after the M.P. hired Mungiki to instigate violence after his re-election defeat in the December 2002 general elections. In addition, 40 Mungiki were also awaiting trial for the alleged killing of a matatu (minibus taxi) driver in 2002.
Practicing witchcraft is a criminal offense under colonial-era laws; however, persons generally are prosecuted for this offense only in conjunction with some other offense, such as murder. Witchcraft traditionally has been a common explanation for diseases for which the causes were unknown. The practice of witchcraft is understood widely to encompass attempts to harm others not only by magic, but also by covert means such as poisons. Although many traditional indigenous religions include or accommodate belief in the efficacy of witchcraft, they generally approve of harmful witchcraft only for defensive or retaliatory purposes and purport to offer protection against it.
In May 2004, police arrested a Nigerian pastor, a prominent doctor, and six other members of Winners Chapel International in the Western Province town of Kitale and charged them with torturing a church member. Local newspapers alleged that the man was tortured to force him to give up his child as a human sacrifice. The Nigerian-based religion, which has 10 churches in the country, has denied the allegations.

Abuses of Religious Freedom
Although the Constitution provides for freedom of assembly, in the past, the Government has used sections of the Public Order Act and the Penal Code to restrict or disrupt public meetings that religious groups organized or participated in, primarily for political reasons. During the period covered by this report, however, there were no reports that the Government restricted public meetings organized by religious groups.
Prominent Muslims in the country continue to charge the Government with arbitrarily harassing Muslims in the name of the war on terrorism. In May 2004, a Somali-Kenyan M.P. wrote a letter to a leading newspaper citing several cases of what he alleged were arbitrary arrests and deportation of Muslims. The M.P. also said that the Government is deliberately attempting to keep Muslims out of the country on the instructions of certain foreign embassies who are “enemies of Muslims” and who have no “regard for the lives of other human beings except those of their own (citizens).”
In March 2002, government authorities charged Wanjiru Nduhiu, the leader of an unregistered Kikuyu group, with urging her followers to renounce Christianity and revert to traditional beliefs and practices, such as female genital mutilation. Nduhiu denied the charges and remained in custody at the end of the period covered by this report.
There were no other reports of religious prisoners or detainees.

Forced Religious Conversion
There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States.
Abuses by Terrorist Organizations
There were no reported abuses targeted at specific religions by terrorist organizations during the period covered by this report.
Section III. Societal Attitudes
There generally is a great level of tolerance among religious groups, although some Muslims perceive themselves to be treated as second-class citizens in a predominantly Christian country. Intermarriage between members of Christian denominations is common, and interfaith prayer services occur frequently. Intermarriage between Muslims and Christians, although less frequent, also is socially acceptable, and mosques and Christian churches are found on the same city blocks.
For years Muslims and Christians have held an open debate over their respective places in society. Each group claims to have a larger number of adherents than is plausible, and some Muslim groups believe that the Government and business communities deliberately have impeded development in predominantly Muslim areas. Some Muslim leaders claim that discrimination against Muslims has resulted in a greater incidence of poverty among Muslims than among other religious groups; however, there is no statistical evidence to support this claim. At times the debate has undermined mutual trust.
In June 2003, Muslims in Bura Division of Tana River District reportedly burned down five churches after an Islamic preacher was arrested and briefly interrogated by police. The Muslims were followers of the cleric and were reportedly angered by the arrest. The cleric had converted to Islam from Christianity and had reportedly angered the Christians in the area with his teachings against Christianity; he was released from police custody at the request of a Member of Parliament. The churches that were burned down were the Anglican Church of Kenya in Bura, the Pentecostal Evangelism Fellowship of Africa (PEFA), the East African Pentecostal Church, the Full Gospel Church of Kenya, and the Bethel Church. Reverend Simon Mgumba of PEFA said his congregation was diminishing after the incident, due to fears of additional attacks. Reconciliation efforts between the communities are underway and no further church burnings occurred during the period covered by this report.
Unlike in previous years, there were no reports of Muslim youths or demonstrators burning down churches.
There were several disputes over land ownership and institutional conflicts between rival religious factions during the period covered by this report; some resulted in violence.
In March 2003, Joseph Okech was killed in a fight during Sunday services between two factions of St. Stephen’s Church in Dandora, Nairobi. The conflict reportedly was the result of a leadership struggle. However, church leaders contend that non-church members were actually responsible for the incident, which remained under investigation during the period covered by this report.
In May 2003, rival factions of the African Independent Pentecostal Church of Africa in Nyeri clashed violently and several worshippers were injured. The two factions are aligned to two feuding archbishops.
In December 2002, eight persons were arrested in connection with the invasion of the African Independent Pentecostal Church during services. Three worshippers and the bishop were injured during the attack and property was damaged. The invasion was suspected to have resulted from an internal church conflict that was sparked when the previous bishop was ordered to retire by church headquarters.
Unlike in previous years, members of the Othaya Presbyterian Church and the Pentecostal Assemblies of God were not forcibly dispersed during services.
In January 2002, Egerton University officials barred approximately 300 worshippers from the AIC from conducting services in the Lord Egerton Castle, which has been the subject of a longstanding property dispute between the University and the AIC. According to the AIC, former President Moi allocated the castle and the 50 adjacent acres to the Church in 1995; according to records at the Ministry of Lands, the property belongs to the chaplain of the University and 2 other individuals. Former President Moi issued a statement soon after the January 2002 incident indicating that the castle and surrounding property belonged to the University; however, AIC leaders urged their followers to ignore the statement. The dispute was ongoing at the end of the period covered by this report.
No actions have been taken against youths involved in the forcible dispersion of persons from a church in Nairobi in March 2002.
In April, a mob killed a man in Mt. Elgon whom they accused of practicing witchcraft. Villagers claimed they had found a snake and witchcraft paraphernalia in the man’s house and blamed him for the death of 810 persons. A week earlier, a group of Mt. Elgon villagers stormed the homestead of another man they suspected of witchcraft. The man escaped, but the mob set fire to five houses in his homestead. Unlike similar cases in past years, no one alleged that either of these incidents was politically motivated.
Upon the request of several Christian organizations, the government of former President Moi appointed a commission to investigate the Freemasons and any other organizations that might be practicing devil worshiping. In January, the Anglican Church in Nairobi refused to preside over the funeral of a Member of Parliament, who was also an Assistant Minister, because the M.P. was said to be a grand master of the Freemasons Society. However, when the funeral moved to the M.P.’s hometown in Nyanza Province, the local Anglican bishops, together with Catholic and Evangelical Protestant clergy, presided over the funeral. Unlike their counterparts in Nairobi, the Nyanza clergy were all members of the same ethnic group, Luo, as the deceased M.P.
In April, a High Court Registrar postponed an inquiry into the death of Father John Anthony Kaiser, a Catholic priest working in the country for more than 30 years. Kaiser was found dead of gunshot wounds near Naivasha town in August 2000. Father Kaiser was a vocal human rights activist and a critic of key members of the Government. Although there was much public speculation to the contrary, an investigative report released by a foreign government in 2001 concluded that the evidence was most consistent with suicide, and that it was unlikely that Father Kaiser had been murdered. The Catholic Church disputed this report and called for further independent investigation. The newly elected Government, under pressure from the Catholic Church, agreed in April 2003 to hold an inquest into Kaiser’s death. The High Court Registrar suspended the inquiry after the presiding magistrate was retired amid corruption allegations. The inquiry resumed in June 2004 and was ongoing at the end of the period covered by this report. The Catholic Church has also called for fresh investigations into the deaths of other Catholic priests who it believes died under suspicious circumstances during the previous government’s term.
There have been reports of intolerance among refugee groups in the country. Somali refugees reportedly have attacked relatives who marry refugees belonging to faiths other than Islam. Somali refugees at the Dadaab camps also reportedly have verbally and physically attacked Sudanese refugee women who wear westernized clothing considered “too revealing” by Somali standards.
In the first 6 months of 2004, youth groups in Coast Province threatened to strip women they perceived as wearing westernized clothing that was “too revealing.” However, the Minister of Tourism made it clear that these threats were unacceptable and any such acts would meet with arrest. No such acts were reported.
There have been societal efforts to bridge religious divides. The Inter-Faith Peace Movement represents a broad religious spectrum, and its members include the Anglican Church of Kenya, the Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims, the Muslim Consultative Council (MCC), the Methodist Church, the Catholic Church, the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), the AIC, the PCEA, and the Hindu Council. The NCCK generally is involved in a variety of civil society initiatives, including conflict resolution. The Catholic Justice and Peace Commission, the MCC, and the NCCK launched a pilot program in 2002 to promote interfaith dialogue and reduce ethnic conflict in Isiolo district. There are other cooperative efforts among religious groups to work on societal problems, including the Inter-Religious Steering Committee for Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation, formed in April 2003.
In April 2003, the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) withdrew from the Ufungamano Initiative, an interfaith movement that helped spur the constitutional review process. SUPKEM left Ufungamano after some Christian members of the group decided to oppose the inclusion of Kadhis’ courts in a new constitution.

Section IV. U.S. Government Policy
The U.S. Government discusses religious freedom issues with the Government as part of its overall policy to promote human rights. The U.S. Embassy has made a concerted effort to bridge the gaps that exist between Muslims and Christians. Embassy officials maintain regular contact with all religious communities, and the Ambassador regularly hosts meetings with religious leaders to discuss issues affecting their communities. The Ambassador and Embassy officials routinely travel throughout the country to meet with various religious and community leaders in an effort to facilitate dialogue on religious freedom.
U.S. Government agencies also provide assistance to many communities that, for historical and religious reasons, perceive themselves to have been marginalized by previous Governments. This assistance takes the form of grants by the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Ambassador’s Self-Help Fund, and the Embassy’s Democracy and Human Rights Fund. The U.S. military also carries out civic action programs to provide medical and veterinary assistance as well as to build and repair schools in marginalized communities. The U.S. Peace Corps also provides volunteers to many of these communities.
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East African Standard
Nairobi Kenya
http://www.eastandard.net/headlines/news2201200417.htm

Thursday, January 22, 2004
Anglicans cancel Omino service
By Standard Reporter

The Anglican Church yesterday disowned former Cabinet minister Joab Omino, saying he was a known member of the Freemasons Society.
The church cancelled a funeral service planned for today at the All Saints Cathedral, Nairobi.
However, the chairman of the Omino funeral committee, Deputy Speaker David Musila, said the service would be held at Uhuru Park, since the church was small and they expected a large crowd.
A harambee organised by the committee to meet the funeral expenses was held last night at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre.
The administration at the All Saints Cathedral had refused the committee and Omino’s family members access to the church.
Omino had publicly admitted during the Robert Ouko Commission of Inquiry in 1991 that he was a member of the exclusive and a former grand master Freemasons Society.
However, the Maseno diocese of the Anglican Church had said that Omino was a member of the church, to which he had contributed generously.
After the Uhuru Park service at 2 pm, the body will be taken to Omino’s Muthaiga residence for an overnight stay and prayers.
Family members and members of the funeral committee will accompany the body to Kisumu tomorrow morning.
Following yesterday’s decision, it was unclear whether an inter-denominational service — that was to be led by Archbishop Wesonga of the Anglican Church’s Maseno West diocese — would go ahead.
After the service, there will be a viewing of the body at Moi Stadium, Kisumu, from 9.30am. The body will then be taken to his Maseno home at 3.30pm.
Omino who died on January 13, will be buried on Saturday at Maseno following a funeral service at 10am.
Earlier, a spokesman of Omino’s clan, councillor Philip Awinyo, had said the Anglican Church was to preside over the burial service.
He had said Omino was a staunch Anglican and would not be buried by the Freemasons.
Awinyo was speaking at Omino’s home during an inspection of the grave site by Planning minister Prof Anyang’ Nyong’o and Kisumu DC Wilfred Ole Legei.
Omino, who had been ailing for over five months, died as a result of heart complications and breathing problems.
His death threw into shock his Liberal Democratic Party, where he was the chairman and a key ally of Cabinet minister Raila Odinga.
He was also a well-known football administrator, having served as chairman of the Kenya Football Federation and, until his death, was an executive committee member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF).
His eldest son, Joshua, said a post-mortem revealed that a fluid had gathered in Omino’s brain. The fluid is believed to have put pressure on his heart and breathing system.
Omino was born in 1939 and went to Makerere University in 1959 to 1961, Cambridge University and joined the Government as a trainee administrative officer in 1962.
He took over the Kisumu Town West parliamentary seat in 1990 soon after the death of Foreign Affairs minister Robert Ouko and was elected Deputy Speaker in 1997 to 2002.
When he was re-elected to Parliament in 2002 he was appointed assistant minister for foreign affairs where he served until his death yesterday.

Billy Graham Center Archives
Records of the Fellowship Foundation – Collection 459

[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent.]
Table of Contents
Brief Description of This Collection

Title Page and Restrictions

Historical Background

An Essay on the Contents of the Collection (Scope and Content)

I. State Correspondence
II. International Correspondence
III. National Prayer Breakfast
IV. General
V. Abraham Vereide
VI. Richard Halverson
VII. Douglas Coe
VIII. Board materials
IX. Financial Materials
X. Clippings

Lists of Audio Tapes, Books, Films, Negatives, Periodicals, Photographs in This Collection (Location Records)

Audio Tapes
Films
Negatives
Photographs

List of the Contents of Boxes of Paper Records in This Collection (Container List)

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Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, financial records, minutes of meetings, reference files, clippings, newsletters, and other materials relating to the work of the Foundation (also known as International Christian Leadership) which involved developing small-group prayer fellowships, especially among government, business, and academic leaders. There is a great deal of information on the annual presidential prayer breakfast in the United States and similar events in other parts of the United States and in other countries. Also documented is the group’s involvement in various community development, patriotic, and personal growth projects. There are restrictions on the use of this collection.
Vol.: 592 boxes (DC; 240 cubic feet), Audio tapes, Films, Negatives, Photos

EXPOSÉ: THE “CHRISTIAN” MAFIA

Where Those Who Now Run the U.S. Government Came From and Where They Are Taking Us

By Wayne Madsen

Part I

fter several months of in-depth research and, at first, seemingly unrelated conversations with former high-level intelligence officials, lawyers, politicians, religious figures, other investigative journalists, and researchers, I can now report on a criminal conspiracy so vast and monstrous it defies imagination. Using “Christian” groups as tax-exempt and cleverly camouflaged covers, wealthy right-wing businessmen and “clergy” have now assumed firm control over the biggest prize of all – the government of the United States of America. First, some housekeeping is in order. My use of the term “Christian” is merely to clearly identify the criminal conspirators who have chosen to misuse their self-avowed devotion to Jesus Christ to advance a very un-Christian agenda. The term “Christian Mafia” is what several Washington politicians have termed the major conspirators and it is not intended to debase Christians or infer that they are criminals . I will also use the term Nazi – not for shock value – but to properly tag the political affiliations of the early founders of the so-called “Christian” power cult called the Fellowship. The most important element of this story is that a destructive religious movement has now achieved almost total control over the machinery of government of the United States – its executive, its legislature, several state governments, and soon, the federal judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

The United States has experienced religious and cult hucksters throughout its history, from Cotton Mather and his Salem witch burners to Billy Sunday, Father Charles Coughlin, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshall Applewhite, and others. But none have ever achieved the kind of power now possessed by a powerful and secretive group of conservative politicians and wealthy businessmen in the United States and abroad who are known among their adherents and friends as The Fellowship or The Family. The Fellowship and its predecessor organizations have used Jesus in the same way that McDonald’s uses golden arches and Coca Cola uses its stylized script lettering. Jesus is a logo and a slogan for the Fellowship. Jesus is used to justify the Fellowship’s access to the highest levels of government and business in the same way Santa Claus entices children into department stores and malls during the Christmas shopping season.

When the Founders of our nation constitutionally separated Church and State, the idea of the Fellowship taking over the government would have been their worst nightmare. The Fellowship has been around under various names since 1935. Its stealth existence has been perpetuated by its organization into small cells, a pyramid organization of “correspondents,” “associates,” “friends,” “members,” and “core members,” tax-exempt status for its foundations, and its protection by the highest echelons of the our own government and those abroad.

The Roots of the Fellowship

The roots of the Fellowship go back to the 1930s and a Norwegian immigrant and Methodist minister named Abraham Vereide. According to Fellowship archives maintained at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois, Vereide, who immigrated from Norway in 1905, began an outreach ministry in Seattle in April 1935. But his religious outreach involved nothing more than pushing for an anti-Communist, anti-union, anti-Socialist, and pro-Nazi German political agenda. A loose organization and secrecy were paramount for Vereide. Fellowship archives state that Vereide wanted his movement to “carry out its objective through personal, trusting, informal, unpublicized contact between people.” Vereide’s establishment of his Prayer Breakfast Movement for anti-Socialist and anti-International Workers of the World (IWW or “Wobblies”) Seattle businessmen in 1935 coincided with the establishment of another pro-Nazi German organization in the United States, the German-American Bund. Vereide saw his prayer movement replacing labor unions.

A student of the un-Christian German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, Vereide’s thoughts about a unitary religion based on an unyielding subservience to a composite notion of “Jesus” put him into the same category as many of the German nationalist philosophers who were favored by Hitler and the Nazis. Nietzsche wrote the following of Christianity: “When we hear the ancient bells growling on a Sunday morning we ask ourselves: Is it really possible! This, for a Jew, crucified two thousand years ago, who said he was God’s son? The proof of such a claim is lacking.”

One philosophical fellow traveler of Vereide was the German Nazi philosopher Martin Heidegger, a colleague of Leo Strauss, the father of American neo-conservatism and the mentor of such present-day American neo-conservatives as Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz. Strauss’s close association with Heidegger and the Nazi idea of telling the big lie in order to justify the end goals – Machiavellianism on steroids — did not help Strauss in Nazi Germany. Because he was Jewish, he was forced to emigrate to the United States, where he eventually began teaching neo-conservative political science at the University of Chicago. It is this confluence of right-wing philosophies that provides a political bridge between modern-day Christian Rightists (including so-called Christian Zionists) and the secular-oriented neo-conservatives who support a policy that sees a U.S.-Israeli alliance against Islam and European-oriented democratic socialism. For the dominion theologists, the United States is the new Israel, with a God-given mandate to establish dominion over the entire planet. Neither the secular neo-conservatives nor Christian fundamentalists seem to have a problem with the idea of American domination of the planet, as witnessed by the presence of representatives of both camps as supporters of the neo-conservative Project for a New American Century, the neo-conservative blueprint for America’s attack on Iraq and plans to attack, occupy, and dominate other countries that oppose U.S. designs.

What bound all so-called “America First” movements prior to World War II was their common hatred for labor unions, Communists and Socialists, Jews, and most definitely, the administration of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Vereide’s Prayer Breakfast Movement, pro-Nazi German groups like the Bund, and a resurgent Ku Klux Klan had more than propaganda in common – they had an interlocking leadership and a coordinated political agenda.

Not only was Vereide pro-Hitler, he was the only Norwegian of note, who was not officially a Nazi, who never condemned Norwegian Nazi leader Vidkun Quisling, a man whose name has become synonymous with traitor and who was executed in 1945. Vereide and Quisling were almost the same age, Vereide was born in 1886, Quisling in 1887. They both shared a link with the clergy, Vereide was a Methodist minister and Quisling was the son of a Lutheran minister. The Norwegian link to the Fellowship continues to this day but more on that later.

Another pro-Nazi Christian fundamentalist group that arose in the pre-Second World War years was the Moral Rearmament Movement. Its leader was Frank Buchman, a Lutheran minister from Philadelphia. Buchman was a pacifist, but not just any pacifist. He and his colleagues in the United States, Britain, Norway, and South Africa reasoned that war could be avoided if the world would just accept the rise of Hitler and National Socialism and concentrate on stamping out Communism and Socialism. Buchman coordinated his activities with Vereide and his Prayer Breakfast Movement, which, by 1940, had spread its anti-left manifesto and agenda throughout the Pacific Northwest.

Buchman was effusive in his praise for Hitler. He was quoted by William A. H. Birnie of the New York World Telegram, “I thank Heaven for a man like Adolf Hitler, who built a front line of defense against the anti-Christ of Communism.”[1][1] Buchman also secretly met with Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Gestapo and controller of the concentration camps. Buchman was at Himmler’s side at the 1935 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg and again at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The predecessor of Buchman’s Moral Rearmament Group, the Oxford Group, included Moslems, Buddhists, and Hindus. Buchman and Hitler both saw the creation of a one-world religion based largely on Teutonic, Aryan, and other pagan traditions mixed with elements of Christianity. Buchman saw Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism as being compatible with his brand of Christianity. Hitler, too, had an affectation for Islam and Buddhism as witnessed by his support for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, the anti-British Muslim Brotherhood, and Tibetan Buddhists.[2][2] But Buchman had no sympathy for the Jews who Hitler was persecuting. Buchman told Birnie, “Of course, I don’t condone everything the Nazis do. Anti-Semitism? Bad, naturally. I suppose Hitler sees a Karl Marx in every Jew.”

Such global ecumenicalism is a founding principle for today’s Fellowship. With total devotion to Jesus and not necessarily His principles at its core, the Fellowship continues to reach out to Moslems (including Saudi extreme Wahhabi sect members), Buddhists, and Hindus. Its purpose has little to do with religion but everything to do with political and economic influence peddling and the reconstruction of the world in preparation for a thousand year Christian global dominion. Post-millenialist Fellowship members believe that Jesus will not return until there is a 1000-year pure Christian government established on Earth. It is this mindset that has infused the foreign policy of George W. Bush and his administration. The desire for a thousand year political dominion of the world is not new. Hitler planned for a “Thousand Year Reich” over the planet. It is not a coincidence that Hitler desired and the so-called Christian dominionists/reconstructionists now contemplate a thousand year reign. The Christian dominionists are the political heirs of Hitler, the Norwegians Vereide and Quisling, Buchman, Opus Dei founder and fascist patron saint Josemaria Escriva and their political and religious cohorts.

The Unsuccessful Right-Wing Coup Against a Democratic President

Vereide and Buchman had important allies on Wall Street. According to Marine Corps General Smedley Butler, shortly after Franklin Roosevelt was elected President in 1932, he was approached by a group of wealthy Republican industrialists to lead an anti-Roosevelt Fascist coup against the government. As with today’s Fellowship, Vereide and Buchman were merely front men for anti-Socialist big businesses who hid behind the façade of a Christian evangelical movement. To them and their bankrollers, Roosevelt was some sort of anti-Christ who was going to go to bat for the workers, blacks, the poor and women while, at the same time, menacing the ultra-rich and the rising Nazi and Fascist specter in Europe. The coup was to be financed mostly by the J. P. Morgan and Du Pont financial empires. General Butler, who had no time for these industrialists since his military forays into Central America and the Caribbean as a foot soldier on behalf of wealthy capitalists, rejected their overture. Gerald MacGuire, a Wall Street bond salesman and former Commander of the Connecticut American Legion, was the chief recruiter for the coup plot. Butler informed Congress of the plans for the coup. However, Congress was owned by Wall Street and no charges were ever brought against the plotters. Butler was incensed and went public but he was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. Not until 1967, when journalist John Spivak uncovered the secret Congressional report, was Butler’s version of the events validated. In the report of the Special Committee to Investigate Nazi Propaganda Activities in the United States, Rep. Samuel Dickstein (D-NY) concluded that there was evidence of a coup plot by the right-wing against Roosevelt. However, much to Butler’s chagrin, no criminal action was taken against the plotters.

Butler said MacGuire’s plan was for Butler to force Roosevelt to declare he had become too sick from polio and create a powerful new Cabinet position, the Secretary of General Affairs, to run the government on his behalf. The New Deal, something the U.S. fascists and Nazis referred to as the “Jew Deal,” would have be scrapped. The comparison between the Secretary of General Affairs and the present Secretary of Homeland Security is striking. If Roosevelt did not agree to the coup plotters’ demand, a half million American Legion veterans would march on Washington to physically remove Roosevelt from office. But MacGuire decided that the perception management campaign would work and an armed force would not be required. He told Butler, “You know the American people will swallow that. We have got the newspapers. We will start a campaign that the President’s health is failing. Everyone can tell that by looking at him, and the dumb American people will fall for it in a second…” Shortly after his testimony before the House investigation committee, MacGuire died of pneumonia at the age of 37.

The perception management concerning the attempted right-wing coup against FDR was a harbinger of more ruses that would come from the same right-wing elements: that the first Secretary of Defense James Forrestal was suffering from mental illness when he threw himself out of the sixteenth story of Bethesda Naval Hospital in 1949, that John F. Kennedy was killed by a lone, pro-Communist assassin, and that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. The coup plotters involved some of the biggest names in American business and politics, including Irenee Du Pont of the wealthy chemical company family and founder of the pro-Fascist American Liberty League; J. P. Morgan officers Grayson Murphy and John Davis; General Douglas MacArthur; southern segregationist Governor Eugene Talmadge of Georgia; and, in what represented a sea change for the extreme American right-wing, two influential Catholics, former Democratic presidential candidate Al Smith, who had become very anti-Roosevelt, and John Raskob, a senior Du Pont official and a high ranking member of the Catholic Knights of Malta. The concordat between right-wing Protestants and Catholics presaged a later alliance between The Fellowship and the proto-Fascist Opus Dei movement.

Buchman, who was also involved in the creating the psychologically abusive Alcoholics Anonymous (which enticed many converts from booze to “Jesus”), created an organization called First Century Christian Fellowship. In 1939, while preaching against life’s extravagances, Buchman set up his headquarters in New York’s posh Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Buchman also found common cause with right-wing racist groups. In addition to his anti-Semitism, Buchman had no time for the civil rights movement. Like Vereide, he rejected women’s suffrage and the labor union movement. When the United States entered the war in December 1941, many of Moral Rearmament’s leaders sought conscientious objector status in the draft as “lay evangelists.” As with today’s fundamentalist Christians, Buchman was rejected by his fellow evangelicals and mainstream religious leaders, including his old evangelical colleague Sam Shoemaker and Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, leader of the United Lutheran Church in America, who called Buchman’s connection with Lutheranism “minimal.” After Senator Harry S Truman received the 1944 nomination for Vice President, he also dropped his past tenuous connections to Buchman. Reinhold Niebuhr, the famous theologian, and George Orwell both labeled Buchman’s Oxford Group and his successor Moral Rearmament Movement as “fascist.”

The Wartime Nazi Invasion of Washington You Never Heard About

Meanwhile, Buchman’s co-ideologist Vereide made his first entrée into the U.S. Congress. In 1942, he began to hold small and discreet prayer breakfasts for the U.S. House of Representatives. The next year, the Senate began holding prayer breakfast meetings. Vereide’s Prayer Breakfast Movement was formally incorporated as the National Committee for Christian Leadership (NCCL). Its headquarters were in Chicago. In 1944, while Vereide’s friends in Germany were being pummeled by the Allies, especially by the Soviet Red Army, NCCL changed its name to International Christian Leadership (ICL), an indication that Vereide saw an immediate need to extend his influence abroad in the wake of a certain Nazi defeat. Vereide also made plans to move his headquarters to Washington, DC. In 1944, his first ICL Fellowship House was established in a private home at 6523 Massachusetts Avenue. In 1945, Vereide held his first joint Senate-House prayer breakfast meeting. In 1945, Vereide quickly got together a group of powerful right-wingers for a prayer breakfast following the death of President Roosevelt, one of Vereide’s and Buchman’s most despised politicians. Roosevelt did not comport with a President who followed the dictates of “God’s Will,” a major Vereide and Buchman principle. At the breakfast were Senators H. Alexander Smith (R-NJ), Lister Hill (D-AL), and World Report publisher David Lawrence. Lawrence was an ardent foe of the New Deal.

After President Truman announced that he was going to continue FDR’s programs – what he called the Fair Deal – the religious right of Republicans and southern Democrats decided to attack Truman. His vulnerability to charges that Communists were embedded in his administration would give rise to the cancer of McCarthyism. However, for the religious right of Vereide, Buchman, and their political allies, this was a necessary and God-driven form of political and moral cleansing. The radical right would also force Truman to consolidate power in a new post-war intelligence agency that would replace the Office of Strategic Services – the Central Intelligence Agency.

Senator Smith was a colleague of fellow Republican and anti-New Dealer Senator Prescott Bush from Connecticut (father of George H. W. Bush and grandfather of George W. Bush). According to Smith’s archived papers, he was also active with Buchman’s Oxford Group. Prior to the war, Alexander’s New Jersey was a hotbed of Nazi activity. The home of German admirer Charles Lindbergh (and the crime scene for a Nazi conspiracy to kidnap and murder his son) and the first port of call for the ill-fated Nazi airship, the SS Hindenburg, New Jersey was friendly territory for groups like Moral Rearmament, the Bund, the Ku Klux Klan, and Vereide’s Prayer Breakfast Movement. One of Alexander’s predecessors as a New Jersey Senator, J.P. Morgan investment banker Hamilton Fish Kean, was also a strenuous opponent of the New Deal until he left the Senate in 1935. His grandson, Thomas H. Kean would serve as New Jersey’s governor and co-chair of the controversial 911 Commission.

It was odd that Lister Hill would have been associated with Vereide and Buchman. He had been a major supporter of the New Deal, which greatly benefited Alabama. However, Hill was also staunch opponent of Roosevelt’s other major initiative, civil rights. The evangelical Christian movement championed segregation. Vereide and Buchman could always be relied upon to come up with a Biblical reason for segregation and that was good for Hill’s political future.

The connection between Vereide and segregation was highlighted by his close relationship with a Senator who was not only a member of the Ku Klux Klan but was engineered into office by them. But, surprisingly, this Senator was not from Alabama or Mississippi but from Maine. Republican Ralph Owen Brewster was not only a member of Vereide’s ICL, an anti-New Dealer but also anti-Catholic. This was yet another irony of the pre-Fellowship. Religious contradictions among its members were not as important as the drive for political and financial power. The contradiction exists today with the Fellowship: Orthodox Jews, secular-oriented neo-conservative Jews, conservative Catholics, evangelical Protestants, and fundamentalist Sunni and Wahhabi Moslems all cooperate to further an agenda that uses Jesus as a de facto corporate logo.

Brewster was the consummate “religious” politician-businessman of his time. He was the person who personally introduced Vereide to many of his colleagues, including Senator Harold Hitz Burton (R-Ohio), a future Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

Played by actor Alan Alda in the movie about Howard Hughes, The Aviator, Brewster engaged in a backroom illegal deal on behalf of Pan American Chairman Juan Trippe to force Hughes to sell Trans World Airlines to Pan Am in return for Brewster dropping a congressional investigation against Hughes for alleged war profiteering. One of Pan Am’s directors at the time of the feud between Hughes and the team of Brewster and Trippe was Prescott Bush. The grandfather of George W. Bush had seen the assets of Union Banking Corporation, on whose board he served, seized after the beginning of the Second World War by U.S. Treasury agents. It turned out that Bush’s bank was operated by Bush and his boss Averell Harriman on behalf of Nazi Germany. Prescott’s father-in-law, George Herbert “Bert” Walker, also represented Nazi German interests through his Brown Brothers, Harriman investment company and affiliated firms with names like American Shipping & Commerce, Harriman Fifteen Corporation, Holland Amercian Trading Corporation, Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation, Silesian-American Corporation, and Hamburg-Amerika Line that were tangled together in a circuitous spider’s web. This would be a blueprint for future Bush family/right-wing oil and intelligence enterprises involving election fraud, drug and weapons smuggling, and political assassinations.

Perhaps because of his first name and his ties to Florida and Latin America, Juan Trippe was often thought of as a Cuban. However, he was of English ancestry and was born in Sea Bright, New Jersey.

Like Pan Am director Prescott Bush, Trippe’s close friend and business partner Charles Lindbergh also had a run in with the U.S. government. After being awarded the Service Cross of the German Eagle medal by Hermann Goering, Lindbergh, an ex-Army Air Force colonel, was not permitted to have his commission as an officer restored under direct orders from Roosevelt himself. Roosevelt always believed that Lindbergh was a Nazi. Lindbergh became an advocate for the United States avoiding war with Germany through his activity with the America First Committee – yet another group sprung from the pro-Nazi right-wing in America. According to Lindbergh biographer Laura Muha, Lindbergh said that he was suspicious of American Jews because of “their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio, and our Government.” It was a claim that many years later would be repeated by the guardian angel of the Fellowship, Reverend Billy Graham.

Meanwhile, Howard Hughes spent much of his own capital on prototype aircraft for the U.S. Army Air Corps. Hughes hired his own gumshoes to spy on Brewster and Trippe and dig up dirt on them. Their connections to Vereide and his pro-Nazi religious friends was likely their biggest “catch” and something the secular right-wing Hughes would later use as political capital. When the right-wing religious Republicans mounted a challenge against Richard Nixon at the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami using Ronald Reagan as their standard bearer, Hughes’ money and influence would ensure Nixon’s nomination and the religious right’s defeat. The Fellowship would have its revenge against Nixon and his backers in the late summer of 1974.

Onward Christian Soldiers!

After the war, Vereide moved to consolidate right-wing groups in Europe. His hated Communists and Socialists had taken over governments across Eastern Europe and were on the verge of achieving power in Western Europe. Winston Churchill had been swept from power by a very leftist-oriented Labor government headed by Clement Atlee. For the remnants of the Nazi movement in America, an “SOS” was being transmitted from Europe for assistance. Vereide traveled to Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, France and Germany. His ICL made an alliance with the like-minded British Victory Fellowship in Great Britain. He also struck up a close relationship with German Lutheran pastor Gustav Adolf Gedat. The German clergyman had been a leading anti-Semite before and during the war. During the same year that Vereide began his prayer breakfasts in Seattle, from the pulpit Gedat thundered that, “God ordered the Germans to hunt down Jews.” Gedat became an apologist for top Nazi officials. He was an activist against tracking down Nazi war criminals, such as former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, a personal friend of the current Republican Governor of California and fellow Austrian, Arnold Schwarzenegger. It should be noted that Schwarzenegger’s father, Gustav Schwarzenegger was a volunteer in the Nazi Sturmabteilung (SA), also known as the Brown Shirts, in Austria and served in the German Army.

As a member of the West German Bundestag, Gedat brought about the cancellation at the Cannes Film Festival of the showing of a movie about a family of Jewish refugees from Prague during the Nazi regime. At the same time, Gedat was one of three of Vereide’s International Council for Christian Leadership (ICCL) representatives in Europe. The other two were also Nazis, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands (married to Queen Juliana) and German Prince Max von Hohenlohe. The latter served under SS head Walter Schellenberg and, according to SS documents captured by the Soviets, Hohenlohe engaged in direct negotiations during the war with Allen Dulles of the OSS. Like Vereide and Buchman, Dulles was a strong anti-Semite who saw Communism and Jews through the same lens. Through the OSS’s and CIA’s “Rat Line” program, such infamous Nazis as Klaus Barbie (the “Butcher of Lyon”), Nazi “mad scientist” and butcher Dr. Joseph Mengele, concentration camp vaccine “tester” Kurt Blome, and SS Commander Adolf Eichmann, escaped from Europe to South America with the assistance of Opus Dei collaborators in the Vatican.

In January 1947, Vereide sponsored the first Washington meeting of ICCL. representatives from the United States, Canada, Britain, Norway, Hungary, Egypt and China. In 1949, Vereide sent Wallace Haines to represent ICL at a meeting of German Christians held at Castle Mainau in Switzerland. Haines would become Vereide’s personal emissary to Europe. Haines was replaced in 1952 by the virulent anti-Communist Karl Leyasmeyer. In 1953, Vereide made his first entrée into the White House when President Dwight Eisenhower agreed to attend the first Presidential Prayer Breakfast. By that time, Vereide’s congressional core members grew to include such senators as Republicans Frank Carlson of Kansas and Karl Mundt of South Dakota. Both were virulent anti-Communists who established close ties with Vereide and his worldwide anti-Communist movement. Vereide also became very close to one of the Senate’s most ardent segregationists, Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, the man who led the Dixiecrat revolt against the Democratic Party in 1948. Thurmond would be a key part of the strategy of Vereide to evangelize poor whites in the South. For Vereide, it would bring converts to his peculiar brand of Christianity; for Thurmond, it would bring into the Republican Party former New Deal Democrats who saw their party straying from segregation and embracing civil rights. For the United States, the strategy would bring a radical form of fundamental zealotry closer to taking control of the country.

Buchman, clearly wishing to obfuscate about his pro-Nazi ties before the war, turned his attention towards Asia, particularly Korea. One Korean Presbyterian preacher, who took an interest in Buchman’s Moral Rearmament principles of a universal religion and total personal submission, was Yong Myung Mun of North Korea. He later changed his name to Sun Myung Moon and, after being expelled from the Presbyterian Church for preaching heresy, he established a right-wing, nominally Christian sect called the Unification Church. Like Vereide and Buchman, Moon began to spread his influence globally.

By 1957, ICL had established 125 groups in 100 cities, with 16 groups in Washington, DC alone. Around the world, it had set up another 125 groups in Canada, Britain, Germany, France, Northern Ireland, Netherlands, Belgium, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Switzerland, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Ethiopia (where Emperor Haile Selassie gave ICL property in Addis Ababa to build its African headquarters), India, South Vietnam, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, Guatemala, Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Bermuda. ICL’s international activities coincided with activities in countries where the CIA was particularly active – an obvious by-product of the close cooperation between Vereide and the CIA’s Allen Dulles and James Jesus Angleton. Angleton and his close associate, Miles Copeland, favored using private businessmen to conduct operations that the CIA was barred from conducting statutorily. The ICL fit the bill very nicely. And although the Fellowship despised homosexuals, that did not stop FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, who was strongly rumored to have been gay, writing a prayer for Vereide.

With the end of colonial rule in large parts of Africa and Asia, Vereide and his new disciple, an Oregonian Christian youth worker named Douglas Coe, set out to make contacts in a number of the newly-independent nations. Coe soon became Vereide’s heir apparent. ICL also established an Asian headquarters in Hong Kong.

Graham Crackers and Moon Rise

In 1958, Representative Albert H. Quie (R-MN) became an important core member of Vereide’s group. The Presidential Prayer Breakfast became an annual Washington institution. Since Billy Graham became a regular fixture at the misnamed “Presidential” prayer breakfast, many attendees figured that the event was officially sponsored by the White House. They were wrong, very wrong. Had they understood the Nazi and Fascist pasts of Vereide and his associates, it is doubtful that the annual prayer breakfast would have taken on such trappings of a state function. Early attention to the group may have prevented them from gaining a toehold in the White House and Congress.

One of Buchman’s followers in the military was General Edwin A. Walker, fired by President John F. Kennedy for insubordination. It was later alleged that Lee Harvey Oswald had attempted to assassinate Walker, a laughable charge considering the right-wing affiliations of both.

As the world reeled in horror at the shooting death of President Kennedy in Dallas in November 1963, the ICL moved into a new Fellowship House at 2817 Woodland Drive in northwest Washington, DC near the Shoreham Hotel. Later it would move to 1904 North Adams Street in Arlington, Virginia, just a few blocks from 2507 North Franklin Road where another virulent right-winger and anti-Semite named George Lincoln Rockwell had set up his own national headquarters. From another one of his Arlington headquarters, nicknamed Hatemongers Hill, Rockwell flew the Nazi flag, blared the Nazi Horst Wessel anthem into the street and menaced trespassers with two vicious dogs – one named Gas Chamber, the other dubbed Auschwitz. Rockwell, a retired U.S. Navy Commander, was the Fuehrer of the American Nazi Party. Rockwell and Vereide shared something in common other than the same neighborhood: absolute hatred for Jews and homosexuals.

In 1965, an aging Vereide resigned as director of ICL and was succeeded as acting director by Richard Halverson, a Presbyterian minister who later became the Chaplain of the U.S. Senate. Vereide continued as Director of Fellowship House. According to Jeff Sharlet of the Center for Religion and Media at New York University and the author of a 2003 Harper’s article on the Fellowship, Vereide often exhorted his followers to emulate the cadres of Hitler or Mao Tse-tung in spreading their form of militant Christianity.

In 1968, Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated after he won California’s Democratic primary by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian émigré to America. Kennedy was succeeded in the Senate by Charles E. Goodell, appointed by New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Goodell was also a core member of the Fellowship.

On January 30, 1969, Vereide, Billy Graham, and newly-inaugurated President Richard Nixon gathered for the Presidential Prayer Breakfast. There is little doubt that Nixon had been tipped off years before by his friend and bankroller Howard Hughes about Vereide’s ties to Pan Am’s Trippe and his bought-and-paid for senator, Brewster. Nevertheless, Nixon, a Quaker, became close to Billy Graham, the North Carolina-born evangelist and one-time student at Bob Jones University who is also the Fellowship’s patron saint. Obviously, Nixon shared the Fellowship’s and Graham’s anti-Semitism.

The Nixon tapes reveal that in 1972, Nixon, Graham, and H.R. Haldeman had a conversation in the Oval Office in which the Jews were targets:

Graham: “This [Jewish] stranglehold has got to be broken or the country’s going down the drain.”

Nixon: “You believe that?”

Graham: “Yes, sir.”

Nixon: “Oh, boy.” So do I. I can’t ever say that but I believe it.”

Graham: “No, but if you get elected a second time, then we might be able to do something.”

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Graham: “By the way, Hedley Donovan has invited me to have lunch with [the Time Magazine] editors.”

Haldeman: “You better take your Jewish beanie.”

Graham: “Is that right? I don’t know any of them now . . .A lot of Jews are great friends of mine . . .They swarm around me and are friendly with me because they know that I’m friendly with Israel. But they don’t know how I really feel about what they are doing to this country.”

Nixon: “You must not let them know.”

The tapes reveal the inconsistencies of the Fellowship. On one hand, their Nazi and Fascist past and tendencies make it seem unlikely that they would be supportive of Israel. Yet, support for Israel is not only something advocated by Graham but also by the shock troops for today’s fundamentalist movement, the so-called “Christian Zionist” wing of the Fellowship.

Although Nixon would later come to distrust the Fellowship, one of his closest confidants, Charles Colson, would become one of the key figures in the group. Colson served time in jail as a result of his involvement in the Watergate scandal. He would later re-emerge “born again” and serve as a covert adviser to the very same elements who would propel George W. Bush into office as President. No longer would the Fellowship have a paranoid, moderate Republican like Nixon or corny, superficially Christians like Reagan or George H. W. Bush in the White House. For the Fellowship, Nixon, Reagan and the first Bush served their purposes but they were not true believers. In their minds, after an unsuccessful coup against Roosevelt and war with their brethren in Germany; the uncooperative and “left leaning” administrations of Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson; a paranoid administration in Nixon; a transitional Gerald Ford; a born again Christian anomaly in Jimmy Carter; partial entrees to power with Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush; and absolute disgust with Bill Clinton, the Fellowship believed it was God’s will that they would have one of their very own core members wielding power in the Oval Office and carrying out God’s (the Fellowship’s) dictates. In George W. Bush, who had been indoctrinated into the total submission to Jesus (the Fellowship) after his involvement with alcohol and drugs, fundamentalists would not only be able to remake the United States but, indeed, the entire world.

Additional tapes indicate that the Internal Revenue Service had Graham under investigation in September 1971. Since Graham was so close to the various Fellowship front activities and foundations, it is likely that the IRS was looking at the illegal mixing of tax-exempt religious groups with political campaigns. When Graham informed Nixon of the IRS probe, Nixon was not happy as the tapes indicate:

Nixon [to Haldeman]: “Please get me the names of the Jews, you know, the big Jewish contributors of the Democrats … Could we please investigate some of the cocksuckers?…Here IRS is going after Billy Graham tooth and nail. Are they going after Eugene Carson Blake [president of the liberal National Council of Churches]?”

Unlike Graham, the Fellowship would not have any problem with its taxes. A letter from the Department of Finance and Revenue of the District of Columbia to Douglas E. Coe of International Christian Leadership, Inc., dated October 21, 1971, granted the group tax- exempt status on its property located at 2817 Woodland Dr., N.W. Washington, DC. In his request for tax-exempt status, Coe listed some of the activities that took place at Fellowship House. They included a Tuesday morning bi-monthly prayer meeting for Foreign Service wives; a Thursday morning “Mattie Vereide Bible Study” (Mattie was Abraham’s wife); “training and orientation activities,” including “regular sessions with associates from around the world;” “how to run small groups;” “how to set up prayer breakfasts;” “regular dinners involving the leadership of the world;” and “meetings to which students, blacks and other groups are invited by business and government leaders to discuss the importance of a strong spiritual foundation in our country.” The last activity would prove fruitful for grooming future young African-American and other political activists who would oversee the Fellowship’s ultimate seizure of political power in America. The Fellowship was camouflaging its Nazi roots and accepting into its fold those minorities it considered useful for its political goals.

Billy Graham also supported the war in Vietnam. On April 15, 1969, just a few months after the National Prayer Breakfast, Graham sent a secret letter to Nixon from Bangkok, where the evangelical preacher was meeting Fellowship missionaries from South Vietnam. Graham and the missionaries urged Nixon to step up the bombing of North Vietnam and include in the campaign the bombing of dikes to “overnight destroy the economy of North Vietnam.”

In 1969, Vereide died and was succeeded by Coe. It is amazing how this right-wing Nazi sympathizer has been eulogized by Fellowship adherents. Norman Grubb’s biography of Vereide, titled Modern Viking — The Story of Abraham Vereide, Pioneer in Christian Leadership, offers the following description of Vereide’s biography:

“This is the story of a Norwegian immigrant to the United States who was the founder of International Christian Leadership, the legal name of what is popularly called The Fellowship, the origin of the Prayer Breakfast movement. While pastoring in Seattle, he also founded the first Good Will Industry. Vereide was a single-minded pre-World War II pioneer. The book is a narrative of meetings, people and letters as Vereide befriended government and business leaders in the name of Christ. He was a world-class leader whose legacy is thriving today on every continent.”

Buchman died in 1961 and his Moral Rearmament Movement in the United States soon gave way to the Unification Church of Moon. Moon began to penetrate the United States with his “missionaries” in the 1960s. In 1972, Moon made his first journey to the United States. His number one priority was to take over control of the U.S. government by getting his followers elected to office. Moon traveled the country in what he called his International One World Crusade. As with Buchman, Moon kept his initial meetings small – house parties were used to entice converts – and like Vereide and Coe, groups were organized into small “cells.” And as with Vereide’s prayer breakfasts and Buchman’s “crusades,” hundreds of politicians around the country were duped into extending official welcomes to the enigmatic Korean.

In August 1974, as Richard Nixon’s administration was coming to an end after the constitutional crisis caused by the Watergate scandal, Moon dispatched his minions to the steps of the U.S. Capitol in defense of Nixon as the House was voting to impeach the president. Moon’s defenders of Nixon were joined on the Capitol steps by members of Orthodox Jewish Rabbi Baruch Korff’s National Citizen’s Committee for Fairness to the Presidency. Korff had been a strong Zionist supporter of Israel. Meanwhile, according to Ohio Republican Party sources, a wealthy Christian fundamentalist from Cleveland had an important meeting with Nixon in the White House.

Fred Lennon was a kingpin in Ohio conservative politics. The owner of Crawford Fitting Company, Lennon built a fortune in manufacturing valves and fittings for the oil and aerospace and chemical industries. Du Pont was one of his biggest customers. Lennon became the majority owner in Swagelok Companies, the parent of Crawford Fittings and held half the shares in Lubrizol, the largest oil additive company in America before it was bought by General Motors. A right-wing Catholic, Lennon, like Vereide and Coe, adopted a simple motto for his business: “Secrecy is Success. Success is Secrecy.” Lennon, who insisted that his employees avoid beards and wear conservative suits with white shirts and ties, was a major financial contributor to conservative Christian Republicans, including Ronald Reagan and the late Republican Representative John Ashbrook of Ohio. Lennon criticized Ohio Republican Representative Steve LaTourette for wearing a beard even though the congressmen had received campaign contributions from the billionaire.

Lennon later established the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs to advance the cause of “traditional conservative values.” Women’s rights foe Phyllis Schlafly and neo-conservative pamphleteer and pundit William Kristol later sat on the Ashbrook Center’s board. Ashbrook’s big claim to fame was that he opposed Nixon because he, like Lennon, thought the president was too liberal.

Lennon even pressured his various industrial suppliers to ante up for the Republican cause. Lennon was not the only Republican right-wing Mr. Money Bags in Ohio. Raymond Q. Armington, the wealthy Cleveland-based founder of Armington Engineering Company, which later merged with Euclid Road Machinery Company, also donated generously to right-wing causes. Armington later ended up on the board of General Motors. Armington was fond of introducing up and coming conservative politicians like Dan Quayle to “influential people.” Armington bequeathed a large portion of his estate to California’s Pepperdine University, a breeding ground for future right-wing Republican politicians. Pepperdine would eventually name President Clinton’s chief inquisitor and tormentor Kenneth Starr as Dean of its “Christian” law school. The influence of wealthy Ohio conservative Christian businessmen like Lennon, Armington, and Cincinnati’s Carl Lindner of United Fruit (later Chiquita Foods) would have far reaching effects. Ohio would become a haven for the activities of the Fellowship and their affiliated organizations and churches. In 2004, the inculcation of these forces in Ohio politics would have drastic and far-reaching effects for the United States and the world.

It was the “secrecy is success” philosophy that prompted Lennon to pay a visit to the beleaguered Nixon in August 1972. When Lennon said he had an offer to make Nixon, the president pulled him into a closet off the Oval Office. Lennon asked Nixon how much money it would take to salvage Nixon’s presidency from the Watergate crisis. Nixon replied that it was all over. And, for Nixon, as far as the Christian right was concerned, over it was.

The word went out to Christian right-wing circles and people who never really trusted Nixon that he was history. Shortly thereafter, two members of the Fellowship, Representatives Quie and John J. Rhodes (R-Arizona) met with Vice President Gerald Ford at a special “prayer meeting” on Capitol Hill. The date was August 8, 1974, the day before Ford was sworn in as President. On August 7, Rhodes accompanied two other Republican congressional leaders to the White House to tell Nixon it was over. The powerful Fellowship lurked behind the political maneuverings that led Nixon to decide to quit. After Nixon resigned, some Fellowship members, including Colson, made attempts to try to get Nixon to join their group as a way to salvage his legacy. Nixon would have nothing to do with them.

The Born-Again Nativity of George W. Bush

Yet another influence convinced Nixon that for the good of the Republican Party he should resign. He was the individual Nixon named as chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1973. His name was George H. W. Bush, the man whose grandfather and father had championed the very same interests who were behind the pseudo-Christian Fellowship and Moral Rearmament – the Nazis and Fascists.

Bush had reason to be thankful to the Christian fundamentalists. They helped his son, George W. Bush, avoid a certain court martial and prison time. On or about April 18, 1972, the Houston Police arrested First Lieutenant George W. Bush of the Texas Air National Guard for possession of cocaine. Bush and a friend were booked into the Harris County jail. Bush’s father, who was serving as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, hurriedly flew to Houston from New York and began to make the required phone calls to keep his son from receiving a court martial, dishonorable discharge, and a prison sentence. As one senior Bush business partner recalled, then-Ambassador Bush knew that junior was in “deep shit.” Senior Bush arranged for his son to serve at a religious drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in San Diego between May and November 1972. Conservative San Diego was a major center for Fellowship activities.

The time Bush spent in religious rehab in San Diego represents part of the famous “gap” in Bush’s National Guard service record. According to a fitness report on Bush issued by the White House in 2004, Bush was “Not rated for the period 1 May 72 through 30 Apr 73. Report for this period not available for administrative reasons.” This represents the time Junior Bush was being shown the way from drugs to Jesus in San Diego and afterwards, his court-ordered community service penance in Houston. The senior Bush arranged to have the arrest record on Junior expunged and even his name removed from the police blotter. Later, a ruse that Junior Bush went to Alabama to work on the Republican Senate campaign of Winton Blount was concocted to throw off nosy opposition research investigators and journalists. The deception worked.

After drug rehab, Bush returned to Houston to perform prior court-arranged community service with Project P.U.L.L. (Professional United Leadership League), a Houston inner-city program to help troubled and mostly minority teens. It was run by John White, a former tight end for the Houston Oilers, who died in 1988. White’s assistants told Knight-Ridder in late October 2004, that because the senior Bush was honorary co-chairman of Project P.U.L.L., he asked White to do him a favor by placing Junior Bush into a volunteer slot. One of White’s administrative assistants told the news service that White recalled that Junior Bush had “gotten into some kind of trouble” but was not more specific. Willie Frazier, another former Houston Oiler and a P.U.L.L. volunteer in 1973, recalled to Knight-Ridder that the senior Bush impressed on White that an “arrangement” had to be made for the Junior Bush. P.U.L.L. closed its doors in 1989, a year after White’s death but several P.U.L.L. associates remembered that unlike other volunteers, Junior Bush’s hours as a volunteer had to be accounted for because he was in some kind of “trouble.”

Senior Bush had a few other chores to take care of. One was to thank Harris County District Attorney Carol Vance, a past president of the National District Attorneys’ Association, for helping to drop the drug charges against Junior and expunging the arrest record. According to close Bush associates, in appreciation, Mr. Vance was rewarded with a partnership at the prestigious Houston law firm of Bracewell & Patterson. First International Bank (later InterFirst Bank), on whose board Senior Bush served, was a major client of Bracewell & Patterson. InterFirst and its predecessor served as a primary money conduit for Saudi and other foreign money that was pumped into the business and political campaign coffers of both George Senior and Junior.

Vance also had links to the organization that would become Colson’s Prison Fellowship Ministries, an adjunct of the Fellowship. Vance, an evangelical Methodist, ministered to inmates in solitary confinement in Texas prisons. Later, Vance would team up with Colson in a variety of prison ministry projects in the United States and Brazil. Governor Ann Richards appointed Vance to the Texas Board of Criminal Justice, the entity that oversees the state’s Correction’s Department. Vance convinced newly-inaugurated Governor George W. Bush to establish faith-based prisons in Texas, a move that was endorsed by Colson. Bush also permitted ministers to act as detoxification counselors without professional training and certification. In addition, churches were allowed to operate day care centers without state accreditation. Vance became one of the leading advocates of evangelical-run prisons in the United States – something that Colson, Bush, Coe, and the Fellowship all advocated. Vance also saw Satan as being behind Ouija boards and the game Dungeons and Dragons – cultural smears that would be extended by his fellow evangelicals to other innocent children’s icons like Harry Potter, The Wizard of Oz’s Good Witch of the North and Wicked Witch of the West, the Vulcan Mr. Spock in Star Trek, and Jedi Knight Yoda in Star Wars, all accused of spreading Satanism and the Teletubbies character Tinky Winky, SpongeBob SquarePants, Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, Buster Baxter the Bunny from Public Broadcasting’s Postcards from Buster, and Barney the Dinosaur, all charged with promoting homosexuality.

Junior Bush’s time in San Diego at a Christian drug and alcohol rehabilitation center is where the future President of the United States would first be given large doses of Jesus indoctrination. With Nixon’s resignation in disgrace and the Republicans taking a beating in the 1974 elections, little did the Fellowship realize what a huge catch they had made in George W. Bush. Gerald Ford’s administration vainly tried to salvage the Republican cause – but Ford would be defeated in the 1976 race against a born-again Christian, nuclear submarine commander, and former peanut farmer from Georgia named Jimmy Carter. True, Carter was an evangelical Christian but he was not the type favored by the Fellowship and their big business allies, especially two key members of the Ford administration, Chief of Staff Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. And Ford’s CIA Director, George H. W. Bush, was miffed when Carter did not invite him top stay on as spy chief. Bush would have his revenge against the upstart former Governor of Georgia and peanut farmer soon enough.

Fellowship of the Kingmakers and Assassins

Coe continued to expand his influence in Congress through the National Prayer Breakfast (it changed its name from “presidential” to “national” in 1970). Both sides of the political aisle were tapped as members and friends of the Fellowship. Democratic Senator Harold Hughes, a confirmed liberal, was a core Fellowship member as was liberal Republican Senator Mark Hatfield of Oregon. Hatfield was no real surprise. As an evangelical lay leader, Hatfield had a natural inclination to be drawn into the Fellowship. Moreover, Hatfield had gone to college with Coe in Salem, Oregon. But Hughes was different. He was a recovering alcoholic and a bitter enemy of Nixon and his administration. However, given the fact that the Fellowship and its allied arm, Alcoholics Anonymous of Buchman, preyed on those with drug and alcohol problems, Hughes fit into the Fellowship very nicely. The Fellowship provided Hughes with “Christian” cover in case he fell off the wagon. It was the case with many Fellowship politicians. They could be forgiven for their transgressions because they had submitted to God (the Fellowship). A number of observers of the Fellowship claim politicians love to get involved with the group because it is a way for them to escape accountability for their actions.

Hughes actually struck up a close relationship with Nixon’s Watergate consigliore Colson. Tom Phillips, the chief executive officer of Raytheon, where Colson once worked as general counsel before he joined the Nixon administration, arranged a meeting through Coe between Colson and Hughes. They immediately discussed how they had unconditionally accepted Christ and afterwards became great chums. Colson had already been converted by Phillips, a man who made most of his company’s profits from arms sales to the U.S. military and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Ironically, the Saudis, who championed the extreme fundamentalist form of Wahhabi Islam, despised Jews and Christians alike.

The aftermath of Watergate had a disastrous effect on mainstream Republicans, many of whom went down to defeat in the 1974 elections. But Watergate permitted a new breed of Republicans, those of the right-wing fundamentalist Christian variety, to advance up the political ladder. After Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” which saw large numbers of Democrat white segregationists in the South convert to the Republican Party, the fundamentalist conservative Republicans had a ready-made flock of supporters.

Several foot soldiers of the extreme right would emerge from this period. One young Texas college apprentice of Nixon’s chief dirty tricks sorcerer Donald Segretti, Karl Christian Rove, was one of them. There were also credible reports that Segretti used members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist White People’s Party in Los Angeles to engage in dirty tricks on behalf of the Nixon campaign. Another suspected Nazi sympathizer with the Nixon campaign was his White house aide Fred Malek. Nixon was also deputy director of the Committee to Re-Elect the President (CREEP). Nixon ordered Malek to find out if there was a “Jewish cabal” within the Bureau of Labor Statistics and he ordered him to make a list of Jews in the agency. Later, in 1988, Malek was George H. W. Bush’s liaison to Eastern European right-wing “ethnic community” leaders who were members of the Heritage Groups Council. Many of these ethnic leaders were ex-Nazis. They included Hungarian fascist Arrow Cross officer Laszlo Pastor, Romanian fascist Iron Guard official Father Florian Galdau, and Radi Slavoff of the Bulgarian National Front, the successor organization to Bulgaria’s wartime Nazi and Fascist parties.

Like Vereide, Rove was a Norwegian-American with a penchant for evangelical politics. Rove’s decidedly un-Christian method for going below the belt politically earned him the attention and interest of the Chairman of the Republican National Committee, George H. W. Bush. The 22-year-old Rove, who dropped out of college, decided to run for Chairman of the College Republicans. The coordinator of his campaign in the southern states was Lee Atwater, another noted dirty tricks operator. Both Rove and Atwater would rise to prominence as members of the Bush Dynasty’s inner circle.

Rove’s opponent to head the GOP College Republicans was Terry Dolan, a conservative but also a rumored homosexual. Rove, whose political attack skills were honed in the 1972 presidential race, wasted no time in feeding the rumor mill about Dolan. Rove defeated Dolan, who then went on the head the National Conservative Political Action Committee and coordinated his efforts with such right-wing “Christian” luminaries as Jerry Falwell, Paul Weyrich, and Richard Viguerie. All three were connected to televangelist Pat Robertson, another “Christian” with a bon vivant past, who was also the son of Virginia’s segregationist Democratic Senator Willis Robertson. With the help of Weyrich, Falwell started Moral Majority. In 1988, after his own failed attempt to wrest the Republican presidential nomination away from Vice President George H. W. Bush, Robertson would launch the Christian Coalition headed by himself and another young Republican operative, Ralph Reed. The Bush Dynasty and the right-wing Christians decided to reach a concordat. Senior Bush’s intermediary with the Christian right was his “converted” son George W. Bush. After some fits and starts with booze and drugs, George W. Bush was ready for prime time and, with the fervent backing of the Fellowship and its subordinate and allied organizations – Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, the Unification Church, he was being groomed to enter national politics.

In 1973, Weyrich and Joseph Coors (after all, “Jesus” and beer are not mutually exclusive) started the right-wing Heritage Foundation, a spawning ground for future Republican politicians and policy planks. Many of their policy initiatives, including the dismantling of Roosevelt’s New Deal, Truman’s Fair Deal, and Johnson’s Great Society, were to have their genesis in the Heritage Foundation.

Rove helped George W. Bush in his failed 1978 campaign for a congressional seat in Texas. Although Bush got his first dose of “Jesus” control in 1972 in San Diego, he was not a very good disciple. In 1978, he was still drinking heavily. A failed oilman in west Texas, it would have been easy to write him off politically. But this son of George H. W. Bush would prove extremely useful for the Fellowship and its allies.

Another troubled young man who was exposed to Christian evangelism but who became active in right-wing Nazi causes was John W. Hinckley, Jr., the Texas-raised son of the wealthy head of Vanderbilt Energy Company, John W. Hinckley, Sr. Eventually, the Hinckleys moved from Dallas, Texas to Evergreen, Colorado. Hinckley, Jr., like Rove, dropped out of college. After a failed attempt at becoming a songwriter in Hollywood, Hinckley returned to Evergreen, where he worked as a busboy in a nightclub. In late 1980, at the same time George H. W. Bush was planning his meeting in Paris with emissaries of the Islamic regime in Iran to convince them to hold on to U.S. embassy hostages taken captive in Tehran in 1979 until after the presidential election — in order to deny President Carter an “October Surprise” — Hinckley began stalking Carter. He also stalked presidential candidate Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts. When Nashville Airport baggage metal detectors identified two handguns in Hinckley’s luggage, he was arrested, had his weapons confiscated, fined $62.50, and released. President Carter was making a campaign stop in Nashville the day Hinckley was arrested but the Secret Service decided not to make any more inquiries. Hinckley then purchased two more handguns.

John Hinckley’s brother Scott, who was Vice President of Vanderbilt Energy, was a friend of Neil Bush, George H. W. Bush’s Colorado-based son who would later go on to infamy in the Silverado Savings & Loan scandal. George H. W. Bush was sworn in as Vice President of the United States on January 20, 1981. Instead of a surprise that would help Carter win re-election, the October Surprise turned out to be a Bush surprise that cost Carter the election. True to their agreement with Bush, the Iranians released American embassy hostages they very moment Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president. A few weeks later, Reagan appeared at the National Prayer Breakfast at the Washington Hilton Hotel along with Vice President Bush. Longtime Fellowship leader Albert Quie, then Governor of Minnesota, gave the keynote message.

A little over two months later, John W. Hinckley, Jr., stepped from a crowd gathered outside the very same hotel where Reagan had prayed in February with the Fellowship. Hinckley fired six shots from his Rohm R6-14 handgun in the direction of Reagan. One struck the president in his left chest, the bullet lodging an inch from Reagan’s heart. George H. W. Bush was literally one inch from the presidency. But the Bush dynasty’s total seizure of the White House would have to wait.

At George Washington Hospital, Reagan was erroneously given a cold blood transfusion, something that a number of medical experts later saw as contributing to the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease. White House Press Secretary James Brady, a Secret Service agent, and a Washington police officer were also wounded – Brady so severely he became an invalid. Ironically, the next evening, Neil was to have hosted Hinckley’s brother Scott at a dinner party at his Colorado home. Immediately, the media began to concentrate on the connections between Reagan’s attempted assassin and the Bush family. NBC’s John Chancellor was particularly interested in the connection between Bush and Hinckley. According to the Houston Post, Bush spokeswoman Shirley Green called the connection “a bizarre happenstance, a weird occurrence.” For a family whose imprimatur is connected to so many American scandals, bizarre and weird should have been replaced with commonplace and expected.

John Hinckley and Neil Bush both lived in Lubbock, Texas during 1978. Neil was in Lubbock to work as manager for his brother George’s 1978 congressional campaign. Also in Lubbock was John Hinckley, Jr., who lived there since 1974. Rove was also a frequent visitor to Lubbock as a campaign strategist for the Bush campaign. It was yet another nexus between the Bush Family and other nefarious events. After all, George H. W. Bush’s address and phone number (“Bush, George H.W. [Poppy] 1412 W. Ohio also Zapata Petroleum Midland 4-6355”) were found in the address book of George de Mohrenschildt, a Texan and Russian émigré with a fascist past in Europe who befriended Lee Harvey and Marina Oswald after the future accused assassin of President Kennedy returned from the Soviet Union. The pro-Nazi Allen Dulles was appointed by President Johnson to serve on the Warren Commission, which ensured the investigation of President Kennedy’s assassination never went beyond the self-described “patsy,” Oswald, to include his right-wing friends and associates.

And the Nazi thread was also strong with both Oswald and Hinckley. Oswald had the Arlington, Virginia Nazi Party headquarters address of George Lincoln Rockwell in his address book when he was arrested following Kennedy’s assassination. Hinckley was a member of the National Socialist Party of America, which continued to function after Rockwell’s assassination in Arlington in 1967. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Hinckley, Jr. had participated in a march honoring Rockwell.

The senior Hinckley had been involved with World Vision, a Christian evangelical association involved with a number of covert U.S. intelligence operations abroad. Like the Fellowship, World Vision acted as a Trojan horse for U.S. intelligence and business interests in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War and Central America during the illegal U.S. support for the Nicaraguan contras. In fact, a number of World Vision officials, including two of its presidents, have been core members of the Fellowship. World Vision continues to involve itself in such hot spots as Iraq and Congo. According to Jeff Sharlet’s 2003 article in Harper’s, Coe admitted to having a close relationship with Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle, the dictator the Sandinistas overthrew in 1979. While the senior Hinckley headed up World Vision, one of its youthful volunteers was Mark David Chapman, also a native of Texas. He would later assassinated ex-Beatle John Lennon on a New York City street. Like John W. Hinckley, Jr., another right-wing would-be assassin and busboy was Arthur Herman Bremer from Milwaukee.

An ultra-rightist who shaved his head in the Nazi style, Bremer despised George McGovern and stalked him during the 1972 presidential election. But McGovern would not ultimately be his target. On May 15, 1972, Bremer, sporting a “Wallace for President” button, approached Alabama Democratic Governor and presidential candidate George C. Wallace at a campaign stop at a Laurel, Maryland shopping center. Bremer fired five bullets into Wallace, who was paralyzed for the rest of his life. Wallace, of course, was not what the new right-wing Republicans wanted to see grab the Democratic nomination. After all, Republican Winton Blount’s senatorial campaign in Alabama against veteran Democrat John Sparkman was intended to help wrest control of the South from the Democratic Party. It was a campaign that George W. Bush participated in by making cameo appearances between Christian drug rehab sessions in San Diego. Wallace stood to derail the Republican’s “Southern Strategy.” By sidelining Wallace, Bremer helped propel the GOP’s new Southern Strategy. The strategy would be refined in 1973 by the new chairman of the Republican National Committee – George H. W. Bush, — who would have two young and ruthless assistants to help him – Karl Rove and Lee Atwater. With the help of Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Bob Jones, and other fundamentalist Christians, the South would eventually fall under almost complete control of a Republican Party that emphasized intolerance and a de facto return to Jim Crow laws. Ironically, Wallace, a former segregationist, would later win back the Governorship of Alabama with a majority of the African-American vote.

The world would not hear the last of Rockwell and his disciples. His Nazi Party would change its name to the National Socialist White People’s Party and remain in Arlington. Eventually, it would change its name to “The Order” and move to the West where it became even more violent. One former Rockwell assistant, William Pierce, would form the neo-Nazi National Alliance. Pierce had worked with Rockwell in Arlington in the 1960s. He later joined the National Youth Alliance, headed up by another neo-Nazi, Willis Carto, who also led the Liberty Lobby. Using the pseudonym Andrew MacDonald, Pierce would pen “The Turner Diaries,” a neo-Nazi rant that called for the overthrow of the U.S. government and the extermination of non-whites and Jews. Pierce was the inspiration behind the founding of the Aryan “Christian Identity” movement. One of Pierce’s fans was Timothy McVeigh, found guilty of bombing the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people, including a number of children. According to Jersey City Police sources, when arrested, McVeigh had the business card of a Jersey City social services worker in his possession.

Jersey City was a major base of operations for Ramzi Yousef, who masterminded the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, and Mohammed Atta and Marwan al Shehhi, who piloted two passenger jet liners into the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. This would not be the only connection between right-wing Nazis and radical Islamists. The Fellowship and Doug Coe reached out to the most radical elements in the Islamic world, including members of the Saudi royal elite who bankrolled Osama Bin Laden and his Al Qaeda followers. According to the Los Angeles Times, as early as 1979, Coe had a special relationship with the Saudis when he arranged a meeting between a Pentagon official and the Saudi Minister of Commerce. In 1988, Saudi ambassador to the United States, Prince Bandar bin Saud, read passages from the Koran at the National Prayer Breakfast. This was at a time the Afghan mujaheddin was coming under the radical influences of Saudi Wahhabis through the “good offices” of Osama bin Laden and other radicals. Coe and his Cedars members also kept in close touch with such Muslim leaders as Presidents Suharto and Megawati Sukarnaputri of Indonesia, General Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan, Mohammed Siad Barre of Somalia (who offered Coe that he would convert to Christianity from Islam if he could be assured of U.S. weapons sales to combat aggression from Soviet-armed Ethiopia), Kuwaiti officials, and even Saddam Hussein. At the same time, Coe heaped praise on the “covenants” Bin Laden, as well as Hitler, established with their respective followers.

In 1990, just prior to George H. W. Bush launch of Desert Storm against Iraq in response to Saddam’s invasion of Kuwait, Fellowship core member Senator David Durenberger (R-MN) led a Fellowship delegation to Baghdad. That same year, the Senate Ethics Committee ordered Durenberger to pay over $124,000 in restitution for shady book and real estate deals. Such ethical lapses were the rule rather than the exception with many politician members of the Fellowship.

Part II

The Cedars of Arlington

In 1976, the Fellowship began looking for a permanent headquarters in Arlington. It set its sights on the estate of George Mason IV, The Cedars, located at 2301 North Uhle Street. Mason was one of the drafters of the Bill of Rights. The Fellowship, also known as the International Foundation, bought the property from Charles Piluso. Although not much is known about Piluso, the Los Angeles Times reported that Howard Hughes, the man with whom Fellowship Senator Ralph Owen Brewster once sparred, also lived there. According to a senior Pentagon official, the Cedars had been used as a CIA safe house prior to the Fellowship’s purchase of the estate. The Fellowship paid $1.5 million for the Cedars, the money coming from Tom Phillips, the CEO of Raytheon, and Ken Olsen, the CEO of Digital Equipment Corporation. Sanford McDonnell of McDonnell Douglas Corporation was another deep-pocketed supporter of the Fellowship through Full Gospel Business Men’s Fellowship International, an activity linked to Fellowship core member Pat Robertson.

According to the Los Angeles Times, other wealthy contributors to the Fellowship and its adjunct International Foundation include Republican donor Michael Timmis, a conservative Catholic Detroit lawyer who replaced Colson as chairman of Prison Fellowship International (Colson remained as Chairman Emeritus) and who also served on the board of the Promise Keepers, another evangelical group; Jerome A. Lewis, the Denver-based oilman who is chairman of Petro-Lewis, one of the largest oil and natural gas partnership firms in the world; and Maryland oilman Paul N. Temple. The Fellowship has also received support from the Eli Lilly and Pew Foundations, contributors to a number of right-wing causes.

In 1991, according to the New York Times, Fellowship member Mark Hatfield came under a Senate ethics investigation and a Federal grand jury probe after he made $300,000 from real estate deals since 1981 involving the sale and purchase of properties from Temple. The investigation of Hatfield followed years of reports that he had received additional largesse from the Fellowship in loans and other favors. It should be noted that Hatfield’s son, Mark Hatfield, is currently the Director of Communications for the Department of Homeland Security. The Fellowship and its members know good real estate deals when they see them. For example, the Cedars is now valued at $4.4 million – and Arlington County received zero in taxes from it because it is tax-exempts a “church.”

A letter from the Fellowship Foundation’s lawyers, Barman, Radigan, Suiters & Brown, to Van Caffo, Zoning Administrator for Arlington County, dated September 9, 1976, requested permission to house “overnight guests” at the Fellowship’s recently-purchased estate, known as “The Cedars.” The letter stated, “no more than ten individuals could be accommodated at any one time.” The letter also affirmed, “that no [emphasis in original] person not involved in the Fellowship would ever be invited to spend the night at the House.” That statement would later prove embarrassing to a number of politicians who stayed at Fellowship group homes while insisting they were not members of the group.

The Fellowship’s attorneys stressed that “anyone staying at the House will have prior involvement with the activities of Fellowship Foundation.” The letter continued, “According to Mr. Coe, these individuals fall into two main categories:

1. 1. Those who come to the Washington area for the sole [emphasis in original] purpose of participating in the worship activities of Fellowship Foundation. I understand that you have no problem with this category.

2. 2. Those who come to the Washington area for a dual purpose, one of which is participation in the worship activities of Fellowship Foundation. It is this category of individuals, which apparently gives you pause.”

For Arlington County, the mere presence of yet another right-wing group, in addition to the Nazis who had already given the county a black eye in the national media, was more than reason to be concerned. However, the Fellowship’s attorneys, using double-speak, convinced the Arlington authorities to grant the group the necessary permits. The Fellowship’s attorneys also made it clear that “the Foundation works quietly but extremely effectively in accomplishing its singular purpose.”

A letter from Arlington County’s Department of Inspection Services to Coe’s attorneys, dated September 20, 1976, granted the Fellowship use of the Cedars as a “place of worship.” The Fellowship would provide more than just a place of worship at the Cedars. The estate would become the site for international intrigue and charges from neighbors that troubled young people staying at the home were being subjected to mind control.

In 1984, the Fellowship achieved a record at its National Prayer Breakfast. The 34th such gathering attracted representatives from over 100 nations. Similar prayer breakfasts were held in over 500 American cities. Conservative politicians were being tapped as never before for future service to the goals of the Fellowship and its affiliates. Moreover, the Christian fundamentalists were gaining influence in the media. Pat Robertson’s 700 Club began the Christian Broadcasting Network (CBN), which cleverly combined news broadcasts with religious programming. In 1983, Moon started the Washington Times, a paper that was built on the remains of the William F. Buckley’s defunct Washington Evening Star. Ronald Reagan called the money-losing Washington Times his favorite newspaper. It did not matter that Moon was named as a central player in the Koreagate scandal that rocked Washington politics from 1976 to 1978. Moon, an operative named Bo Hi Pak (who was president of the Washington Times), and the Korean Central Intelligence Agency were accused of bribing politicians. Ford’s Vice Presidential running mate in 1976, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, was one of those who called for a full investigation of Moon.

Representative Donald Fraser (D-MN) launched a House investigation of the Korean political influence peddler. Fraser’s committee concluded that Moon was a central to an “international network of organizations engaged in economic and political activities” and that Moon’s organization “had systematically violated U.S. tax, immigration, banking, currency, and Foreign Agents Registration Act laws.” The New York Daily News’ Lars Erik Nelson called for the Justice Department to investigate the Washington Times for violation of the Foreign Agents’ Registration Act. The Fraser Report also proved the connection between Moon and the Korean CIA. For his efforts, Moon’s propaganda machine branded Fraser an “agent of Moscow” and began a vicious character assassination campaign against him. Undaunted, Fraser went on to become Mayor of Minneapolis. But for the Christian Right, Moon’s personal attack template would serve as a blueprint for future Christian fundamentalist candidates. One recommendation of the Fraser Committee went unheeded by the incoming Reagan administration: a White House Task Force to investigate Moon and his operations. George H. W. Bush’s hat trick with the Iranian hostage takers ensured that Moon would not have to worry about White House interference.

Nor did it matter that U.S. counter-narcotics investigators were uncovering evidence that Moon supplemented his various enterprises around the world with money from drugs from Latin America and Asia – proceeds that partially wound up in the coffers of Jerry Falwell. The Fascist thread that Moon inherited from Buchman’s Moral Rearmament was evident in one of Moon’s richest supporters, Ryoichi Sasakawa, one of Japan’s richest businessmen and a self-described “fascist.” According to PBS’s Frontline, Sasakawa, who met Benito Mussolini in 1939 and called him the perfect “fascist,” was imprisoned by U.S. forces after World War II as a war criminal. In 1967, Sasakawa and Moon formed the Japanese chapter of the right-wing World Anti Communist League, a right-wing group that would help Moon gain an entrée to Latin American military dictators and other right-wing groups around the world. It was the same network that was used by the Fellowship Foundation and World Vision. Moon and Sasakawa were also connected to the Japanese “Yakuza,” the Mafia that controlled gambling and the illegal narcotics market in the country.

But while he thought he had a free pass from Reagan and the conservatives in his administration, Moon miscalculated the IRS and its enforcement of tax laws. In 1982, Moon was convicted in a federal court for income tax evasion. He was sentenced to 13 months imprisonment at the Danbury Federal Correctional Facility in Connecticut. Immediately, Falwell called for a presidential pardon from Reagan. The pardon initiative for Moon was championed by former Senator Paul Laxalt (R-NV) and Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT). When Fellowship core member Richard Thornburgh, the former Governor of Pennsylvania, became Attorney General under George H. W. Bush, the Fellowship network no longer had to worry about running afoul of tax laws. Thornburgh would later serve on a committee that investigated CBS anchor Dan Rather and 60 Minutes for their use of Texas Air National Guard documents that pointed to George W. Bush’s absent without leave (AWOL) status in 1972. The original documents had been scanned thus giving them the appearance of being forged. However, 60 Minutes, which had exposed past government, business, and religious wrongdoing, had been largely neutered and Rather announced his retirement. One former Justice Department Criminal Division attorney said he was not surprised to hear that former Attorneys General Ed Meese, Thornburgh, and John Ashcroft were core members of the Fellowship. He said they were “the three worst Attorneys General my division ever worked for.”

One other prominent Christian reconstructionist member of Reagan’s cabinet was Interior Secretary James Watt. He actually once told a congressional panel that the environment was not important in light of the imminent return of Jesus. Under oath, he told a congressional committee that believed that Jesus would return “after the last tree is felled.”

At the same time Moon was on his rise, another Christian dominionist began to put his stamp on Republican right-wing policies. His name was Rousas John Rushdoony, the son of Armenian refugees from the anti-Armenian Turkish pogroms of the early 20th century. Rushdoony ran a Christian Right think tank in Los Angeles called the Chalcedon Foundation. Chalcedon became the source for much of the philosophical underpinnings of the Fellowship’s political platform – a platform that would provide much of the political and religious propaganda spread by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell on their respective television programs. Robertson had been very much like George W. Bush in his earlier years. The son of Senator A. Willis Robertson (D-VA), Robertson was known as a playboy with a questionable military service record during the Korean War. But like George W. Bush, Robertson “found God.” Converted by Vereide’s close associate Harold Bredesen who spoke in “tongues.” In a bizarre display, Bredesen reportedly once spoke in ancient Arabic to a wealthy Egyptian heiress during a Fellowship meeting. Robertson, in addition to running his 700 Club television program, decided to invest in diamond mines in Africa. He became close to three of Africa’s most infamous despots – Mobutu Sese Seko and Laurent D. Kabila of Zaire/Congo and Charles Taylor of Liberia. It was discovered that Robertson was using his “Operation Blessing” aircraft, not to provide aid to African victims of famine, war, and disease, but to transport equipment and supplies for his various diamond mining ventures on the continent. It would not be the only criminal activity engaged in by the Fellowship in Africa’s affairs.

Rushdoony became a Presbyterian minister in California during the mid-1940s, the same time Vereide and Buchman were extending their influence in Washington and around the world. Rushdoony’s writings attacked the Unitarian religion and what he considered its contrivances, which included the United Nations. He was also an early proponent of home schooling (an important part of the Fellowship’s agenda) and a charter member of the secretive Council for National Policy (CNP) – a right-wing version of the Council on Foreign Relations whose first head was Christian Right leader Tim LaHaye, the one-time head of the Moon-funded Coalition for Religious Freedom whose advisory board members included such Christian Right luminaries as Don Wildmon, the pro-censorship head of the American Family Association; Pat Crouch, the founder of the Trinity Broadcast Network; and James Kennedy, the televangelist head of Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Another important CNP member was Baptist deacon and former Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), who also championed right-wing fascist Latin American leaders favored and supported by the Fellowship. These included El Salvadorean death squad leaders Roberto d’Aubisson and General Carlos Eugenios Vides Casanova (now living in South Florida under the protection of Jeb Bush and the right-wing Cuban community), El Salvador’s right-wing President Alfredo Cristiani (in 1990, President George H. W. Bush reportedly held a special prayer with Cristiani and death squad leader d’Aubisson in a side room at the National Prayer Breakfast with Coe officiating), Honduran evangelical Christian death squad leader General Gustavo Alvarez Martinez, Chilean dictator General Augusto Pinochet, Brazilian dictator Artur da Costa e Silva, Guatemalan dictator and evangelist Efrain Rios Montt (in 2004, Montt’s daughter, Guatemalan Senator Zury Rios Sosa married Fellowship adherent Representative Jerry Weller (R-IL), Guatemala’s evangelist President Jorge Serrano Elias (his George W. Bush-like quote upon election in 1991: “We have won the election with the support of the people and God. I have no commitment to any political power base; my only commitment is to God, to whom I’ve committed myself to govern the best I can`. . .”); and Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza (also one of Coe’s friends). The Fellowship had been on very good terms with Panamanian dictator and drug runner Manuel Noriega who the first Bush ousted in a 1989 military invasion. Other CNP initiatives included supporting apartheid in South Africa (Jerry Falwell called South Africa’s Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu a “phony” and Pat Robertson’s 700 Club provided a convenient propaganda outlet for South Africa’s apartheid regime) and opposing Corazon Aquino’s attempt to depose Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. The looted gold bullion and gems from the deposed Philippine dictator’s coffers and other ill-gotten foreign funds would eventually be used to fatten the off-shore Bush bank accounts (artifices with various Bush family corporate code names – Five Star Companies, Lone Star Companies, Phoenix Group, Winston Partners, Cosmos Corporation, Hamilton Trust, InterFirst Bank, European Pacific Group, Mongoose Enterprises, Equity Trust, Interfax Gold Corporation, etc.) and serve as the source for the money used in the future to “fix” elections in favor of George W. Bush and his political allies.

Rushdoony developed his own network of right-wing fundamentalist Christians, including Oklahoma State Representative Bill Graves, an ardent Christian dominionist, and John Whitehead, the director of the Rutherford Institute, the right-wing outfit funded by Rushdoony that propelled Paula Jones to national stardom as Bill Clinton’s chief accuser and involved itself in the 2000 Florida election recount fiasco on behalf of George W. Bush. Rushdoony’s son-in-law, Gary North, is a very active Christian dominionist in right-wing politics and the proponent of “Christian economics,” which is based on the Austrian (Fredrich von Hayek) or Mount Pelerin Society schools of economics. The precepts of this economic school are based on Fascist economic theories of the 1920s and 30s. The umbrella organization for Rushdoony and North’s activities was the William Volker Fund, which also funded the conservative Hoover Institution.

North also founded the Aaron Burr Society. The group’s emblem has a drawing of Burr shooting Alexander Hamilton in their infamous duel. The emblem bears the motto: “Not soon enough,” referring to the notion that Hamilton’s assassination should have occurred much sooner.

The Fellowship also made inroads within the U.S. military, particularly the officers’ ranks. Through an entity known as the Officers Christian Fellowship (OCF), the Fellowship tapped officers in all the services and future officers in the service academies to become “ambassadors for Christ in uniform.” The motto of the OCF is “Pray, Discover, Obey.” The Christian Military Fellowship served as the OCF’s counterpart among the enlisted ranks. Adjunct Fellowship organizations targeted foreign officers and enlisted men, particularly in Great Britain and Australia; service spouses; and service mothers. The international military fellowship is known as the Association of Military Christian Fellowships (AMCF). One person close to the AMCF is Arthur E. (“Gene”) Dewey, a retired Army officer who served as Colin Powell’s Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration. Dewey was also a personal consultant to Douglas Coe. In his State Department position, Dewey was an ardent foe of international family planning programs, including the denial of reproductive health care to refugee women.

Eventually, the Fellowship would count some of the military’s top leaders among its members. They include former Joint Chiefs Chairman General David Jones, current Joint Chiefs chairman General Richard Myers, former Marine Corps Commandant and current NATO commander General James L. Jones, Iran-contra figure Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North, and, perhaps even more controversial than North, Army Lt. Gen. William “Jerry” Boykin, the military head of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld’s intelligence branch. In 2003, Boykin, in a speech to the First Baptist Church in Daytona Beach, Florida, referred to the United States as a “Christian nation” and, that in reference to a Somali warlord, he stated, “ I knew that my God was bigger than his. I knew that my God was a real God and his was an idol.” The reverberations of Boykin’s comments were felt around the world. But his allies and Fellowship compatriots, Rumsfeld, Myers, Kansas Representative Todd Tiahrt, and most important, George W. Bush, refused to condemn him. Calls for Boykin’s reassignment when unheeded. Soon afterwards, Boykin’s Pentagon intelligence group was discovered to have been involved with the torture and sexual molestation of prisoners in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The sexual molestation of prisoners included male and female teens being held in Iraq. Also of note is the current head executive director of the OCF. He is retired Lt. Gen. Bruce Fister, the former head of the U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command.

One of the larger OCF chapters is at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the home of the U.S. military’s disciplinary barracks and a prime recruiting and mentoring center for Fellowship members. All sorts of military members who have been sentenced by courts martial around the world have served their prison terms at Leavenworth. In 1982, a key member of the OCF began his four-year sentence at hard labor at Leavenworth after he was convicted of over 19 counts of lewd and lascivious acts with minors, including the dependents of naval personnel under his command. He was Lieutenant Commander Larry W. (Bill) Frawley, Jr., U.S. Naval Academy graduate, P-3 Orion pilot, and the one-time Commanding Officer of the Coos Head, Oregon Naval Facility, a classified Sound Surveillance System (SOSUS) station that mainly monitored Soviet submarines on missile patrol and maneuvers in the Pacific. Frawley was heavily involved in a child pornography ring before FBI agents discovered his name after a major bust of a kiddie porn kingpin in Chicago. The Operations Officer assigned to Coos Head was requested by the Naval Investigative Service and the FBI to set up a “sting” against Frawley. Duly sworn in as a temporary special agent of the FBI, the Operations Officer gained Frawley’s trust, gathered incriminating evidence against him, handed it to federal and local law enforcement agents from Coos Bay, Oregon; Portland, and Seattle, and testified as the government’s star witness at Frawley’s court martial at the Navy’s Sand Point Base in Seattle. It was later discovered by NIS and the FBI that Frawley and other members of the OCF used the Christian organization as a cover for their child pornography business. And one other tidbit had been discovered by the FBI. Frawley had traveled secretly to the Soviet Union while he held a Top Secret nuclear weapons and cryptographic security clearance.

That discovery led to the reassignment of the Operations Officer, the Portland-based and Seattle-based NIS agents, and the Coos Bay-based FBI agent to relatively insignificant desk jobs in Washington, DC. While he held his confidence and trust, Frawley revealed to the Operations Officer that those involved with his ring included other top-ranking military officers, lawyers, and members of the clergy. Later, the two NIS agents revealed that the Coos Bay scandal “went to the very top” of the Reagan administration. Frawley’s prison term at Leavenworth was anything but “hard labor.” Navy insiders reported that he attended therapy sessions. If the sessions involved the OCF, it is easy to ascertain how they operated. Jeff Sharlet’s Harper’s article provides a unique insight into the Fellowship’s thinking about sex perverts. Sharlet recounted a discussion Douglas Coe’s son, David, was having with one recruit named Beau at the Ivanwald compound. Coe asked Beau, “Beau, let’s say I hear you raped three little girls. And now here you are at Ivanwald. What would I think of you, Beau?” Embarrassed, Beau replied, “Probably that I’m pretty bad!” Coe responded, “No, Beau, I wouldn’t. Because I’m not here to judge you. That’s not my job. I’m here for only one thing.” Beau’s answer was, “Jesus!”

The Fellowship certainly did not mind when singer Michael Jackson stayed with his children at the Cedars in October 2001 when he was in Washington for a benefit concert for the 911 victims. In a lawsuit filed in 1993, Jackson was accused of sexually molesting a 13-year-old boy. According to a September 27, 2002 Los Angeles Times article by Lisa Getter, Jackson’s stay at the Cedars was arranged through David Kuo, George W. Bush’s White House director of the Office of Faith-based Initiatives. Kuo, a former CIA employee who co-wrote a book with Ralph Reed, had been Executive Director of the Center for Effective Compassion, founded in 1995 by Arianna Huffington and Marvin Olasky. Olasky is a Jewish convert to evangelical Christianity, a major Christian reconstructionist proponent, and an ardent supporter of George W. Bush. Kuo also previously worked for the Christian Coalition and Senator John Ashcroft.

After the Navy’s cover-up of the Frawley and other related criminal cases, the Operations Officer used his Washington, DC base to expose the matter to the public. He received warnings from other active duty and retired Navy personnel that his activities were “embarrassing” to the Navy and that there would be professional and “other consequences” if he did not desist. The cover-up went to the highest echelons of the Navy’s command structure and included Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, the man whose obfuscation abilities would be used to cover-up the gun turret explosion on board the USS Iowa battleship, the tail hook scandal involving naval aviators, and, ultimately, the 911 attacks when he was named as a member of the 911 Commission by George W. Bush. In the interest of full disclosure, it must be stated that this author was the Operations Officer referenced above.

Another organization affiliated with the Fellowship is the Campus Crusade for Christ, which, in turn, runs something called the Christian Embassy, its outreach arm in Washington. There is also an “International Christian Embassy” in Jerusalem that also houses the studios of Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network. Through the Campus Crusade, the Fellowship and its affiliates seek converts among college students in the United States and abroad. An additional Fellowship activity is the National Student Leadership Program and the associated Navigators, which seek converts among college and high school-aged young people. The Fellowship’s network can also reach out to other evangelicals for the purpose of political marches on Washington. Whether they are called “Jesus Marches,” Promise Keeper rallies, or anti-abortion gatherings, the fundamentalists have been able to tap the support of Falwell; Richard Roberts, the son of Oklahoma-based evangelist Oral Roberts; and Florida-based evangelist Benny Hinn. In addition, the Fellowship has its own aggressive “Youth Corps,” which is active seeking converts, according to Jeff Sharlet’s Harper’s article, in countries as diverse as Russia, Ukraine, Romania, India, Pakistan, Uganda, Nepal, Bhutan, Ecuador, Honduras, and Peru. The Fellowship seeks to groom young leaders for future positions of leadership in countries around the world. According to Sharlet, the goal of the Fellowship is “two hundred national and international world leaders bound together relationally by a mutual love for God and the family.” In Fellowship-speak, the “family” is synonymous with the Fellowship. The strategy of placing Fellowship “moles” in foreign governments would pay off nicely when George W. Bush and his advisers had to cobble together a “Coalition of the Willing” to support the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

The Christian Right, having cleverly hidden its Nazi and Fascist past, was on the march. The movement would soon tap ambitious conservative politicians eager to use its vast resources to achieve political power. Newt Gingrich, Dennis Hastert, John Ashcroft, Tom DeLay, Dan Quayle — and, after a concordat with failed 1988 Republican presidential candidate Pat Robertson — George H. W. Bush, would all become followers, some for truly religious reasons, but most for political opportunism. But the biggest prize of all was yet to be heard from. The failed businessman and politician from west Texas, George W. Bush, was now a firm believer in the Fellowship agenda. In his father’s 1988 race against Michael Dukakis, the junior Bush was his father’s liaison to the fundamentalist right. Junior Bush would help channel advice and money from the Christian Right to his father’s campaign. In a sign of things to come, the Bush campaign savaged Michael Dukakis over a convicted murderer and prison parolee in Massachusetts named Willie Horton, who, after he was released from prison, held a Maryland couple hostage, raping the wife and stabbing her husband. The strategy was based on the Bush campaign notion that Dukakis, if elected, would pardon African American prisoners who would rape white women. An attack ad ran on television by a Republican group insinuated that Dukakis would release blacks who would threaten whites. For the junior Bush and the Christian Right, it was a campaign position that would pay off handsomely in the future when dealing with John McCain and John Kerry. One of the architects of the 1988 “Willie Horton was Lee Atwater, the close associate of Karl Rove. In 1990, Atwater would move into the Cedars after he discovered he was dying from brain cancer.

Consolidating Fellowship Power

As with any “army,” in this case a Christian army, the Fellowship lost no time in establishing both physical and political bridgeheads in the United States and abroad. First, the Fellowship ensured that its new fortress, “The Cedars,” was well protected. Through a variety of incorporated foundations, the Fellowship masked its various real estate investments through various entities, including the Fellowship Foundation, the Wilberforce Foundation, and two used by the Fellowship in the past: Kresage Foundation and Tregaron Foundation. Kresage, at one time, appeared to have links to the Billy Graham Evangelical Association. Tregaron was used in 1975 by the Fellowship and President Ford to search for a purchase a mansion for the Vice President. Ford was significantly closer to the Fellowship than was his predecessor, Nixon. The purchase of a Vice Presidential mansion was no longer necessary when Vice President Nelson Rockefeller moved into the former mansion for the Chief of Naval Operations at the Naval Observatory – it has been the home of the Vice President ever since. According to the minutes of the District of Columbia’s Advisory Neighborhood Commission 3-C dated January 26, 2004, there is 20 acres of property in Northwest Washington known as the “Tregaron property.” There were plans to sell the property for the construction of 16 houses, a plan that was opposed by the Cleveland Park Citizens Association (“CPCA”) and Friends of Tregaron that wanted the land preserved as a national historic site. It isnear this property that the Klingle Mansion is located. It is noteworthy that records indicate that intern Chandra Levy may have gone to the mansion to meet someone before she was murdered.

Foundation

Address

Assets

Liabilities

Wilberforce Foundation

705 Melvin Ave Ste 105
Annapolis, MD 21401

$1,612,691 (end FY 01)

$116,000 (end FY 01)

Tregaron Foundation (sometimes spelled in Fellowship archives as “Treagon”

Defunct*

Fellowship Foundation

2244 N 24th St
Arlington, VA 22207 (Ivanwald)

$8,479, 884 (end FY 02)

$1,313, 990 (end FY 02)

Kresage Foundation

Defunct

C Street Center

133 C Street SE
Washington, DC 20003

Officially designated a “church” – IRS filing not required

Prison Fellowship Ministries

P.O. Box 17500, Washington, DC 20041

$25,252,541 (end FY 03)

$10,790,975 (end FY 03)

Officers Christian Fellowship

3784 S. Inca St.
Englewood , CO 80110

$4,471,262 (end FY 03)

$824,162 (end FY 03)

Campus Crusade for Christ, Inc.

100 Lake Hart Dr. MC 3900
Orlando , FL 32832

Tax exempt religious organization

Fellowship Foundation Corporate Entities (Source of assets/liabilities: www.guidestar.com)

*Worked with President Ford to purchase a mansion for the Vice President.

One of the first tactics employed by the Fellowship was to expand outward from the Cedars. The Fellowship purchased two homes in close proximity to the Cedars that became “group homes” (dormitories) in violation of county ordinances prohibiting such homes without proper state and county accreditation. The Fellowship argued that it had verbal authorization from the county for such homes, a point of contention with some of the non-Fellowship neighbors. The two homes are called Ivanwald (a group home for men) and Potomac Point (a group home for women). It was well known to the neighbors that these group homes were used to house troubled teens and young adults (a significant number of them were the children of prominent politicians and businessmen) but the Fellowship kept the names and home addresses of these mostly out-of-state “guests” a secret from the county government and the local Woodmont Civic Association, which began to complain about the out-of-state traffic as well as certain VIP limousines constantly speeding through the quiet residential neighborhood in north Arlington.

Although secrecy was paramount to its operations, the Fellowship saw a need for a public relations point man. They selected Richard E. Carver, a former Republican mayor of Peoria, Illinois; a reserve Air Force colonel, and Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Financial Management under Ronald Reagan. In 1982, Carver, a member of Reagan’s Commission on Housing, recommended cutting billions of dollars from the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s Section 8 housing program. That resulted in thousands of people, including families with children, going homeless across the nation. According to the Chicago Tribune, Carver caused waves in the Air Force when he insisted on purchasing custom made Air Force dinnerware and whiskey glasses from a West German manufacturer for the use of 65 Air Force attaches in capital around the world. It turned out that Carver wanted to impress the top management at Passau, West Germany-based ZF Industries with his abilities to expedite procurement through the vast Air Force bureaucracy. There was one problem for Carver – the Pentagon had a directive prohibiting such purposes except for a very few top flag rank officers. In 1986, Carver bypassed the Secretary of Defense and went straight to the Secretary of the Air Force for authorization to spend $100,000 on the West German dinnerware. When the cost of the dinnerware increased to $115,000, Air Force purchasing officers began to complain.

Subsequently, the West German china manufacturer went through ZF Industries to complain that the cost did not cover shipping. Carver then requested additional money for shipping costs. When that posed a problem, carver suggested that the dinnerware order be increased to $1.1 million to cover the original order in addition to custom made china for 138 commanders, mostly colonels, of Air Force bases and stations around the world. Lt. Gen. Carl Smith, chief of the Air Staff, then put his foot down – telling Carver that his china deal was way out of line. Smith said if colonels received dinnerware, every general would want it also. The bill could top $6.3 million. Smith told Carver the money could be used to improve dilapidated housing for officers and enlisted men in some of the Air Force’s residential units. Carver told General Smith that he should reconsider, whereupon, Smith retorted with a firm “No.” In other words, Smith was not about the follow such a ludicrous order from a civilian superior.

Carver eventually left the Pentagon. He hooked up with the Fellowship as its major front man, became a consultant for Smith Barney (it was reported that Carver actually was retained by Smith Barney as a consultant while he still worked at the Pentagon at a fee of $920 a month), and joined ZF Industries as head of its U.S. subsidiary. The Chicago Tribune referred to Carver as an “Ed Meese of the Pentagon.” The comparison was serendipitous. Meese, Reagan’s ethically-challenged Attorney General, was also a core member of the Fellowship. One of Carver’s deputies at the time was Ernie Fitzgerald, the whistleblower who, in 1968, identified a $2 billion overrun with the C5A cargo plane. His reputation as a dogged whistleblower on government waste and fraud with contractors, Carver quickly gave Fitzgerald and unfavorable performance report and transferred Fitzgerald out of his office, which prompted a complaint from Representative John Dingell (D-MI), a determined watchdog on contractor overruns. Carver told People magazine, “Ernie has the capacity to really irritate people . . . He has a kind of antagonistic way of doing things.” Certainly, not the way of the Fellowship, where people smile, talk about their commitment to “Jesus,” and engage in backroom shady deals. Soon, Carver would turn his attention away from the likes of Fitzgerald and towards the suspicious neighbors of the Cedars.

Residents of the Woodmont neighborhood of Arlington noticed something strange about the Cedars shortly after the Fellowship moved in. One long time Arlingtonian was hired to do some plumbing at the estate. He noticed in 1980 that the estate’s “carriage house” had been converted into a group home. Men and women who stayed there were assigned chores around the complex – women would cook and do the laundry while the men would tend to the lawn and perform other maintenance work. In 1980, the Fellowship referred to themselves not only as “The Family” but also “The Way.” The plumber also noticed that the old “well house,” which sat in an extreme corner of the estate, overlooking Washington, DC, was converted into a residence. Although that home appears nowhere on Arlington zoning maps, neighbors have discovered that it serves as the residence for Coe when he visits the Cedars.

After it became apparent that the Fellowship was establishing much more than a place of worship in North Arlington, neighbors became more concerned. The first event that triggered suspicion was when a one-lane bridge that carried cars, bicycles, and pedestrians on North Uhle Street over Spout Run Parkway collapsed. The Fellowship saw to it that without the bridge, it turned its end of what was renamed 24th Street became a secured cul-de-sac. Even though the very end of 24th Street remains county property, the Fellowship painted the bridge supports white to give them the appearance that they were a “gate” onto the Fellowship’s private property. When non-Fellowship neighbors tried to have the one-lane bridge rebuilt as a pedestrian and bicycle trail, the Fellowship resorted to a nasty campaign to discredit and harass the proponents. As a result, a mini-civil war broke out in quiet Woodmont. Some residents suggested the Fellowship actually sabotaged the original North Uhle Street bridge to provide permanent secrecy and security.

Similar suspicions surround the purchase by a Fellowship member of the neighboring 19-acre estate property, which was resold to Arlington County. The county turned it into a historic site and park – the Fort C.S. Smith Park. However, a number of residents contend the Fellowship wanted the park to be a security buffer zone. Originally, there were plans to build a nursing home on the adjoining property. Although the park closes at night, it keeps its lights on 24 hours a day. A government source confided the Fellowship worked out a deal with the county to keep the lights on so the parking lot can be used as an emergency heliport in the event the Cedars must evacuate its VIPs.

In August 2003, Ivanwald and the Cedars received the kind of attention it disdains. The Washington Post ran a couple of stories about James Hammond, a 21-year-old male resident of Ivanwald, who broke into four homes in the Woodmont neighborhood looking for prescription drugs. Although he broke into four homes, he pleaded guilty to breaking into only two. Rose Kehoe, the past president of the Woodmont Civic Association, complained about the secrecy associated with the Fellowship’s dormitories for the troubled youth. Some neighbors argued that criminal background checks should be required for the residents of the Fellowship homes. In addition, residents of Woodmont, who referred to the Fellowship as the “pod people,” complained that additional Fellowship youth were being housed in other Fellowship homes in the neighborhood. Over twenty homes in the Woodmont neighborhood were purchased by Fellowship members as of the end of 2004. Kehoe told the Post, “We don’t know who is running around. We don’t know if they are criminals or previous sex offenders.”

One local resident told the Arlington County Board that the young people who stay at the Cedars complex appear “abnormally passive.” She said that they wait for “God to tell them what to do.”

Passions became inflamed when non-Fellowship residents learned that the Fellowship never possessed a special permit to run group homes in the neighborhood, a violation of Arlington County’s zoning laws. Carver, the Fellowship spokesman, insisted the Fellowship had an informal verbal nod from the county. A number of the young residents who filter in and out of Ivanwald and Potomac Point are students from Christian evangelical Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California.

Another bone of contention between the Fellowship and residents was the speeding limousines that transported U.S. and international political VIPs to and from the Cedars. On Tuesday mornings, the Cedars hosts an “ambassadors breakfast,” while on Thursday mornings, former Senator Charles Percy hosts something called the “International Finance Meeting” for 25 people. One retired Washington, DC newspaper editor who has lived in Woodmont for 48 years referred to the Fellowship as the “rich Christians.”

A U.S. State Department bus transports foreign and U.S. diplomats to and from the Cedars for the Tuesday morning 7:30-9:30 a.m. meeting. Yet more limousines arrive at the Cedars for a meeting held at 9:30 p.m. on Sundays. The county placed speed bumps on 24th Street to answer the concerns about speeding motorcades but they did not deter the speeding. One neighbor estimated that there are some 80 limousine trips per week to the Cedars. Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat visited the Cedars in 1999 complete with his automatic weapon-carrying security guards. Out-of-state license plates abound at the Cedars compound.

To say that the Cedars is wired into American foreign policy would be an extreme understatement. One of the Fellowship’s core members with significant links to the foreign policy establishment, including the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is Dr. Douglas Johnston, a veteran of nuclear submarines, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy and Director of Policy Planning and Management in the Office of the Secretary of Defense under Jimmy Carter, and the founder and president of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy. Johnston, who was involved in various international conflict resolution programs, prepared a conflict resolution casebook in which he cites Buchman’s Moral Rearmament post-war reconciliation efforts between Germany and France. Of course, for Buchman and his friends, those efforts largely involved nothing more than reintegrating supporters of the German Nazis and Vichy French back into government and business.

The Cedars have hosted various world leaders – becoming what has amounted to a shadow State Department. Perhaps its importance as an international rendezvous point is why several miles of fiber optic cables have been installed at the Cedars by Verizon and Comcast. In one instance, the Fellowship requested permission to build an “underground chapel” on the Cedars premises. Although the facility was never built, neighbors suspected that it was a bomb shelter.

Local residents, who, as they put it, have not drunk the Fellowship’s “Kool Aid,” point to the constantly expanding Fellowship enclave in Arlington. They claim the Fellowship has taken over two local church congregations – Falls Church Episcopal and Cherrydale Baptist – as well as opening their own private school – Rivendell. Two other northern Virginia churches reportedly have a number of Fellowship congregants – Potomac Falls Episcopal and McLean Bible Church. In addition, Arlington skeptics of the Fellowship point to the increasing political clout of the Fellowship, for example, in placing one of its members, Michael Foster, on the Arlington Planning Commission as chairman, successfully buying the votes of four of the five members of the Arlington County Board (all Democrats), and installing an ally as president of the Woodmont Civic Association.

Sometimes, the Fellowship invites members and non-members alike to special functions at the Cedars. For example, it sent out this invitation in 2004:

HISTORY UNITES US

Woodmont Neighbors and Friends of the Cedars

Are cordially invited to attend a

Free Lecture on

Oriental Rugs

Safi Kaskas of Beirut, Lebanon

Saturday, May 1, 2004

Hosts: Hon. And Mrs. Don Bonker [former Democratic Representative from State of Washington]

When non-members attend such functions at the Cedars, they are assigned one person who follows them everywhere they go. In every room in the Cedars, they are always under the watchful gaze of a photograph of Billy Graham. Coe has been referred to as the “shadow Billy Graham.”

According to Arlingtonians who have investigated the Fellowship, Doug Coe once owned a residence in very liberal Takoma Park, Maryland and continues to own residences in Annapolis, Maryland (where he and his followers have similarly taken over a residential area cul-de-sac) and Seattle, Washington, the one-time hometown of his mentor Vereide. Local politicians point to the Fellowship’s generous political contributions as a way of buying influence and maintaining their secrecy in the county.

Another troublesome aspect to the Fellowship’s expanding presence in Arlington is a resurgence of Nazi activity in the county. “White power” and Nazi groups continue to hold meetings in the same North Arlington neighborhoods where Rockwell and his Nazis once lived. The rise of Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in Louisiana GOP politics spurred the Nazi movement around the country, including the persistent cell in Arlington. As late as 1999, these meetings attracted Nazi skinheads from around the country as well as foreign leaders, like the leader of the British National Front, a racist, ultra-right party. In addition, there were very recent cases of anti-Semitism experienced by members of one of the local American Legion posts. It should be recalled that the American Legion was to be used as the vanguard of the 1930s right-wing coup against Franklin Roosevelt. In December 2004, suspected white supremacist arsonists set fire to dozens of expensive homes under construction in nearby Indian Head, Maryland in a subdivision called Hunters Brooke. Some of the homes had been purchased by African Americans. At least ten of 26 homes set ablaze were severely damaged. Immediately, the right wing media began blaming “eco-terrorists,” but soon the real culprits were soon uncovered. It emerged that at least five white racists charged with the arson were members of a group called “The Family,” which is, ironically, one of the names used by the Fellowship.

But the Fellowship has shed much of its former ties to the Nazis and fascists. Although the fascist ideology is behind the scenes, the Fellowship has dropped its explicit hatred for other races and religions. One observer called the Fellowship “Fascism with a smiley face.” For a group with so much power, it is amazing that since the early 1970s, only a handful of meaningful articles have been written about it. In the early 1970s, Playboy wrote about Senator Hatfield’s association with the group. The Portland [Maine] Phoenix wrote a story about Governor Baldacci’s ties to the group and the Las Vegas Weekly looked into Senator Ensign’s membership in the group. Two major exposes were Jeff Sharlet’s Harper’s article, “Jesus Plus Nothing,” and Lisa Getter’s article in the Los Angeles Times. The Washington Post wrote about the Fellowship after the break-ins of homes in Arlington by resident of Ivanwald and the resulting problems with neighbors and county. Perennial Democratic presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche’s various publications have also focused on the Fellowship and its influence in government. But aside from those articles and some mention on a few Weblogs, the Fellowship continued to maintain its preferred secretive existence.

During the 2004 election campaign, northern Virginia Democratic congressional candidate James Socas highlighted the membership in the Fellowship of his opponent, incumbent Republican Frank Wolf. Socas said his research indicated that Wolf was a member of a religious cult whose leadership praised the leadership qualities of Hitler, Ho Chi Minh, Lenin and Osama Bin Laden. The Socas campaign released a report titled, “Who is Frank Wolf? Moderate Republican or Leader of the Religious Right?” The Washington Post also reported on Socas’s charges that Wolf was a member of an extremist religious group and Wolf’s response that the charges were “bogus.” The Fellowship’s public relations man Carver told the Post that Socas’s charges were “ludicrous.” Coe did not return phone calls from the Post. It was the kind of political donnybrook the Fellowship abhorred but here was a congressional candidate bringing to light the membership in “the Family” of one of the House’s most powerful Republicans. In yet another example showing the ties between the Fellowship and the neo-conservative movement, the Post quoted Michael Horowitz of the neo-con Hudson Institute defending Wolf. Lamely, and obviously without researching the history of the Fellowship, Horowitz called Socas’s linking of Wolf to a group that praised Hitler nothing more than “hate speech” and “McCarthyism.”

Turning the “People’s House” Into the “People’s Temple”

Adding to the Fellowship’s perception as a powerful and secretive organization is its ownership of a boarding house and conference center around the corner from the U.S. Capitol at 133 C Street, SE, Washington, DC. At any given time, eight members of the Senate and House have resided at the C Street Center where they sleep, pray, and eat for a mere $600 a month. C Street Center resident Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) claimed on his Federal Election Commission expense report that he paid the C Street Foundation $762 on December 11, 2001. Similar boarding houses have been set up by the Fellowship in London for Members of Parliament and in Moscow for members of the State Duma.

Past and current residents of the C Street Center have included former Representatives Steve Largent (R-OK) and Ed Bryant (R-TN), former Representative and current Democratic Governor of Maine John E. Baldacci, Senators Sam Brownback (R-KS) (Brownback is also a member of the right-wing Fascist-oriented Opus Dei sect within the Catholic Church), Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC), John Ensign (R-NV), and Tom Coburn (R-OK), Representatives Mike Doyle (R-PA), Bart Stupak (D-MI), Zach Wamp (R-TN), and former Senator Don Nickles (R-OK).

Other past members included Senators Sam Nunn (D-GA), Lincoln Chaffee (R-RI), Roger Jepsen (R-IA), Charles Percy (R-IL), Strom Thurmond (R-SC), David Durenberger (R-MN), Jennings Randolph (D-WV), Paul Trible (R-VA), Phil Gramm (R-TX), William Armstrong (R-CO), Lawton Chiles (D-FL), Dan Coats (R-IN), Jeremiah Denton (R-AL), John Stennis (D-MS), Al Gore, Jr. (D-TN), and Larry Pressler (R-SD), and former Representatives J. C. Watts (R-OK), Robert Dornan (R-CA), and Tony Hall (D-OH). George W. Bush named Hall, who purported to be a strong defender of human rights, to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for World Hunger. In typical Fellowship fashion, Hall immediately began to lobby the UN on behalf of Monsanto to accept genetically-modified foods.

Other significant members of the Fellowship are Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA), Pete Domenici (R-NM), Conrad Burns (R-MT), Richard Lugar (R-IN), James Inhofe (R-OK), Bill Nelson (D-FL) (Nelson’s wife Grace serves on the Fellowship Foundation’s Board of Directors), and Rick Santorum (R-PA), Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-TN), and George Allen (R-VA), Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-IL), Representatives Frank Wolf (R-VA), Tom DeLay (R-TX), Tom Feeney (R-FL), Curt Weldon (R-PA), Jerry Weller (R-IL), and Joseph Pitts (R-PA).

Friends of the Fellowship, if not outright members, include Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Rick Santorum (R-PA), Jon Kyl (R-AZ), House Majority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO), and former Senator Zell Miller (D-GA).

One of the more interesting affiliates of the Fellowship is Senator and former First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY). A former “Goldwater Girl” in the 1964 presidential campaign, Mrs. Clinton seemed to have partially recovered some of her earlier conservative underpinnings. According to her autobiography, Living History, after her husband became president, Clinton paid a visit to a women’s meeting at the Cedars on February 24, 1993. Present were Susan Baker (wife of the first Bush’s Secretary of State, James Baker III), Grace Nelson (wife of Florida’s Bill Nelson), Joanne Kemp (wife of former HUD Secretary Jack Kemp), Linda LeSourd Lader (wife of Clinton ambassador to Britain and founder of the Renaissance Weekend Phil Lader – the Renaissance Weekend in Charleston, South Carolina is billed by Lader as a “spiritual” event[3][3]), and Holly Leachman of the Falls Church Episcopal Church (one of the churches taken over by the Fellowship). Leachman and her husband Jerry had been involved in 1997 with a Cleveland, Ohio Fellowship adjunct called the Family Forum. The Leachmans were interviewed by ABC’s Nightline on February 25, 2004. They extolled the virtues of Mel Gibson’s controversial film, The Passion of the Christ, along with other evangelicals, including some Jewish converts to Christianity.

Senator Clinton admits to having a continuing close relationship with Susan Baker, through Baker’s visits to Capitol Hill and the letters she and other Fellowship wives wrote her during the impeachment proceedings against President Clinton. Even Bill Clinton seemed to have been taken in by the Fellowship. In his autobiography, My Life, Clinton brags that he never missed a National Prayer Breakfast. In his autobiography, Bill Clinton erroneously writes that it was not until 2000 that Coe invited the first Jew, Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), to speak at the breakfast. However, New York Mayor Ed Koch spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1981 Senator Jacob Javits in 1984, and Arthur Burns in 1986.

Ironically, it was Susan Baker’s husband who served as the political fix-it man for Clinton’s Vice President Al Gore in delivering Florida’s 25 electoral votes to George W. Bush in 2000, costing Gore the White House. In fact, Senator Clinton wrote that all of her relationships with the Fellowship began with the luncheon she attended in 1993. In her biography, Senator Clinton writes of Douglas Coe, “[he] is a genuinely loving spiritual mentor . . . Doug Coe became a source of strength and friendship.” Of course, Clinton is referring to the period of time when her husband was being harassed by conservative Republicans out for blood – the Whitewater investigation and impeachment hearings brought about by what she called the “vast right-wing conspiracy” against her husband. It is amazing that Mrs. Clinton would have established such a trusting relationship with people who were the “vast right-wing conspiracy” that she complained about so vociferously.

Nevertheless, Mrs. Clinton remained close to Coe, who she invited to accompany her as a member of the U.S. delegation that attended Mother Theresa’s state funeral in Calcutta in 1997. Mother Theresa had spoken at Coe’s National Prayer Breakfast meeting in Washington in 1994. From that platform, Mother Theresa launched a verbal broadside against President Clinton’s pro-abortion policy. For Coe, being at Mother Theresa’s state funeral was a strange juxtaposition from his reported attendance at Bohemian Grove meetings of San Francisco’s elite Bohemian Club – festivities that are replete with pagan rites. But as one senior Pentagon official said, “the Fellowship has nothing to do with God or Jesus, it is a capitalist cult.” One of the major members of the Bohemian Club is former NASA administrator Sean O’Keefe, who is also close to conservative Christian Representative Tom Feeney (R-FL), the former Lieutenant Governor running mate of Jeb Bush in the 1994 Florida gubernatorial election, a major political operative in 2000’s fixed presidential election when he was Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives, attorney and registered lobbyist for Yang Enterprises – the NASA contractor accused of creating rigged election software and spying for China, and the politician accused of helping to launder large sums of money through the Florida Department of Transportation – the agency that controls one of Florida’s biggest cash cows – the toll turnpikes.

Other important women members of the Fellowship are Interior Secretary Gale Norton, former Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Eileen Bakke, the wife of former Advanced Energy Systems (AES) CEO Dennis Bakke. Dennis Bakke, who was succeeded at AES by former George H. W. Bush Budget director and current Carlyle Group official Richard Darman, resigned after allegations that Bakke funneled AES revenues into the Fellowship. AES became infamous when it took over the Republic of Georgia’s electrical distribution system and began cutting off electricity to those who never paid for it under Soviet rule. Affected were elderly people on fixed pensions, young couples, and even the Tbilisi airport and an important military base. Dennis Bakke is a resident of the Cedars neighborhood where he owns an estate called Dogwood Rise.

Entertainers and sports figures have also been featured at the Fellowship’s political prayer meetings over the years. They have included Jim Nabors, Dallas Cowboy coach Tom Landry, and the Washington Redskins coach Joe Gibbs and fullback Charlie Harraway.

Not every member of Congress thought the Fellowship’s activities on Capitol Hill were appropriate. Former Senator Lowell Weicker (R-CT) told The Washington Post in 1981 that the Christian evangelicals “want to proselytize the whole country . . . That’s what I’m fighting against.” Former Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern (D-SD), the son of a minister, told the Post, “those guys have such a personal view of religion that it isn’t reflected on the Senate floor — if anything, they lean over backwards to avoid social issues . . . one of my criticisms is that they don’t see the social implication of moral and religious faith.” Former South Carolina Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC), a devout Lutheran, never went to a Fellowship meeting. According to long-time investigative journalist Robert Parry, in 1983, Representative Jim Leach (R-IA), speaking at a meeting of the moderate Republican Ripon Society, warned that the College National Republican Committee, once headed by Karl Rove, had solicited and received money from Moon’s Unification Church. Rove’s successor, Grover Norquist, disrupted Leach’s presentation. Norquist is now an unofficial adviser to both Rove and George W. Bush. And like the Fellowship, also had links to the Similarly, for those who question or criticize the Fellowship, Coe has a patent response, “They are enemies of Jesus.”

A senator who incurred the wrath of the Fellowship and its allies was the man who challenged George W. Bush for the Republican presidential nomination in 2000 – John McCain. After McCain beat Bush in New Hampshire, the right-wing evangelicals pulled out all the stops to nail McCain on their home turf – South Carolina. Christian operatives associated with Karl Rove, Ralph Reed, and South Carolina’s Bob Jones University began spreading rumors – through “push polls,” e-mail, sermons, and word-of-mouth that McCain fathered an illegitimate “black girl” out of wed lock (a reference to his adopted Bangladeshi daughter), that he was a traitor while a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, that his wife Cindy was a druggie, and that he was gay. The gambit paid off. McCain was trounced by Bush in South Carolina and Bush went on to win the Republican nomination. For the Christian mafia, Bush was their best hope for total control since the founding of the United States. Next, the fundamentalists turned their attention to the Democratic nominee – Al Gore, a former theological seminary student.

Although Gore won the popular vote for President, a phalanx of right-wing GOP operatives descended on the pivotal state of Florida to engage in judicial subterfuge after widespread voter suppression took place at the polling places. Two fundamentalists on the U.S. Supreme Court – Antonin Scalia (an Opus Dei member) and Clarence Thomas – voted with three other members to stop the Florida vote recount, ensuring that Bush won the White House. Nevertheless, Gore has always admired Doug Coe, even calling him his “personal hero.”

The Moon organization also gained immense influence in the George W. Bush administration. Not only had Bush’s father taken Moon’s money to give speeches after he left office, but the junior Bush appointed Unification Church members to sensitive posts in his administration. David Caprara, head of Moon’s American Family Coalition, was appointed to head the AmericCorps’s anti-poverty program, VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). Moon’s rhetoric would track with the right-wing policies of Bush – Moon called gays “dung eating dogs” and American women “prostitutes.” And hearkening back to the days of Vereide and Buchman and their Nazi friends, Moon said the Holocaust was God’s revenge for the crucifixion of Christ.

The Fellowship’s Very Own Foreign Policy

Perhaps one of the most important aspects of the Fellowship is their involvement in international affairs at the highest levels. Ever since Vereide sent emissaries abroad to further the aims of the Fellowship, the group had sought access at the highest levels of governments abroad. A significant Fellowship presence was established in various English-speaking countries – Britain, Canada, Australia, and South Africa – as well as the Netherlands, Germany, France, India, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and countries in Scandinavia, Latin America, and Africa. Thanks to the support of two ministers in General Franco’s Fascist Spanish government, Vereide and Coe were able to penetrate Spain and obtain adherents, mostly through the offices of the neo-Fascist Catholic Opus Dei sect. Vereide was also able to convince Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie to be a major supporter of the Fellowship. Chiang Kai-Shek’s Nationalist Chinese government was also a supporter and remains one to this day. Every year, the Fellowship’s C Street Center receives a $10,000 check from the head of Taiwan’s mission in Washington. The Fellowship also established close links to Liberia’s autocratic President William Tubman. Today, Fellowship adherents are even found in the leftist government of Brazil’s President Luis Inacio Lula da Silva. Fijian dictator Sitiveni Rabuka is a Fellowship member. He also overthrew his nation’s democratically-elected government. In Canada, a Fellowship ally, the extreme conservative Stockwell Day of the Canadian Alliance, calls for the establishment of a Christian state. He wants to overturn the Canadian Supreme Court’s decision to legalize gay marriage, wants public funding of private religious schools, and outlaw abortion. Day hopes to one day become Canada’s Prime Minister. One Fellowship denomination in Toronto, the Toronto Airport Christian Fellowship, was expelled from its parent denomination, the Vineyard Churches of Anaheim, California. The parent body cited the Toronto church’s prayer and Scripture interpretation practices. Another one of those who the Fellowship counts as a friend is French far-right leader Jean Marie Le Pen. The French leader has created a firestorm of protests in France and elsewhere by claiming the Nazi occupiers of France were not so brutal and that the Nazis were not inhumane. It is the same rhetoric once espoused by Vereide, Buchman, and Gedat.

The Fellowship’s involvement in foreign countries is documented in archived files held at the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College in Illinois. Organized in a manner similar to how the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) stores and segregates files, the Fellowship’s archives consist of 592 boxes of documents, photos, audiotapes, film, and negatives. The documents are have an automatic declassification schedule, in the same manner that NARA handles classified files. The Fellowship’s new policy, adopted in 2003, states “All folders with paper records less than twenty-five years old are closed to users until January 1st of the year following the 25th anniversary of the creation of the youngest document in that file, except to those users with the written permission of the President of the Fellowship Foundation. This restriction applies to everyone, including Foundation staff and associates. Example: A folder containing material dated no later 1977 would be open January 1, 2003.”

Coe has been one of the Fellowship’s most frequent travelers. A review of international wire service stories reveal Coe globe hopping with congressional Fellowship members for a number of years. From Pakistan Newswire, Islamabad, on November 29, 2000 (a little less than a year before 911 and a few weeks after the presidential election): “A five-member US business delegation headed by Mr. Douglas Coe, Special envoy of Congressman Mr. Joseph Pitts, called on Federal Minister for Commerce, Industries and Production Mr. Abdul Razak Dawood at Ministry of Industries and Production here on Wednesday.” From the Polish Press Agency, Warsaw, December 17, 1997: “Former deputy Sejm speaker Aleksander Malachowski was granted Wednesday the St. Brother Albert award for his concern for ‘the weak and those in need’ and his ‘social journalism characterised by humanistic values.’ In the scope of ecumenical activity the awards went to priest Waldemar Chrostowski and Stanislaw Krajewski for creating the foundations of Christian-Jewish dialogue and Douglas Coe from the United States for organizing annual meetings of politicians in Washington for furthering communication regardless of political divisions.”

From Xinhua News Agency, Havana, November 27, 1990: “Two U.S. congressmen arrived here Monday on the first stage of a 10-day visit to the Caribbean to seek ways of understanding between the united states and the region, the official news agency Prensa Latina informed. Republican senator for Minnesota and Tony Hall, the Democrat representative for Ohio, are traveling as members of the ‘National Prayer Breakfast’ religious organization, which aims to promote friendship between peoples. Upon his arrival, Durenberger told the press, ‘we are visiting Cuba with the goal to make new friends on a personal basis.’ Political relations reflect personal ties and in the case of Cuba, and the United States ‘there are no political or personal ties,’ he said. Hall affirmed that their visit, which will last little more than 24 hours, aims to ‘build bridges between political and personal lines,’ and help create ‘ways of communication’ between the two countries. The two congressmen expressed their hope that the relations between the two nations, which were suspended in 1961, can improve in the near future. Durenberger was a member of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee for eight years and severely criticized former President Ronald Reagan’s policy of force against Nicaragua. The delegation which also includes Douglas Coe, a member of the ‘National Prayer Breakfast’ Executive Board, and other businessmen will also visit the Grand Cayman Island, Belize, Aruba and Venezuela.”

The trip to off-shore banking havens by the Fellowship delegation is of note. These were the same islands noted by former U.S. intelligence operatives as the location of billion dollar money tranches and corporate artifices used by the Bush family to engage in various illegal activities, including drug money laundering, corporate fraud, and funding the fixing of elections. The Fellowship not only had an interest in Caribbean off-shore banking havens but made special invitations to Cook Islands Prime Minister Geoffrey Henry and Fiji Prime Minister Sir Ratu Kamisese Mara. Both island nations are off-shore banking havens and the Cook Islands featured prominently in the transfer of money and gold looted from the Philippines and placed in Bush-controlled secret accounts following Marcos’s overthrow in the 1980s. Henry and Mara were guests at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1991 where George H. W. Bush was also present.

In 1987, Coe was in Mongolia, officially as a tourist (Mongolia was still Communist). However, shortly after Communism fell, the Fellowship and the Moon organization set up shop in the largely Buddhist country. Fellowship missionaries fanned out across to other Buddhist regions that had been close for years to outsiders: the Russian Buddhist Republics of Tuva, Kalmykia, Buryatia, and Evenkia. The Fellowship called them “unreached peoples.” Similarly, after the recent tsunamis that killed over a quarter million people in South and Southeast Asia, fundamentalist Christian aid workers arrived with more than relief in mind. Local officials in Sri Lanka and Indonesia complained about the relief workers using the disaster to proselytize and adopt orphans into Christian homes. The people of the worst affected area, Aceh in Sumatra, were also referred to as “unreached people,” meaning they had not yet been subject to conversion outreach.

The Fellowship also had a keen interest in intelligence matters, especially when they involved Fellowship members. For example, one of the tape reels held by the Fellowship at the Billy Graham Center concerns the use by the CIA of journalists as informants. The tape is described: “Reel-to-reel, 7 ½ ips. 1 side only. January 23, 1976. Radio program Panorama, broadcast on station WTTG in Washington, DC, hosted by Maury Povich, with commentator Ms. Bonnie Angelo. The guest on the show is correspondent and informant for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The conversation is about contacts between U.S. intelligence agencies and journalists. Chuck Colson is referred to very briefly during the interview, in reference to knowledge of a list in the Nixon White House of journalists who were intelligence informants.”

The Fellowship’s influence in Vereide’s native country of Norway was revealed in late 2004 when the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet exposed Norway’s Lutheran minister and Christian Democratic Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik as a secret member of the Fellowship. Although Bondevik at first downplayed his role in the Fellowship, Bondevik later was forced to admit that in December 2001 he met at a dinner at the Cedars with then-Attorney General Ashcroft and that the meeting involved his official role as Prime Minister. Apparently, Bondevik and Ashcroft discussed the U.S. military tribunals. Ashcroft referred to Bondevik as his “brother in Christ” and he serenaded Bondevik Norwegian folk songs after dinner. Bondevik had previously argued that his involvement with the Fellowship was a personal matter. In addition, it was revealed that Norway’s ambassador to the United States, Knut Vollebuk, was a frequent visitor to the Cedars as were a number of members of Norway’s Christian Democratic Party. As the scandal deepened, Coe’s involvement in Norwegian politics came to the fore. Torkel Brekke, a Norwegian religious researcher, revealed in his book Gud i norsk politkk (God in Norwegian Politics) that Coe provided advice and money to Christian Democrat politician Lars Rise. During a campaign in 1997, Coe told Rise to target voters in the heavily Muslim eastern part of Oslo. Coe emphasized that Christians and Muslims shared common views on the evils of pornography, alcohol, abortion, and same sex marriages. For Rise, the strategy was successful although a subsequent election saw him dropped as a Christian Democratic candidate. The Coe-Rise affair points to the alliance the Fellowship has formed over the years with Muslims, particularly more radical Islamists. For example, in 1988, the first Muslim, Saudi Prince Bandar, spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast.

Norway’s opposition political leaders, from the right to the left, demanded an explanation from Bondevik about the role of the Fellowship in Norwegian politics. Socialist Left leader Kristin Halvorsen told the Oslo daily Aftenposten, “seen with Norwegian eyes, this is a reactionary association.” The Labor Party and right-wing Progress Party also raised concerns about Bondevik and the Fellowship. For many Norwegians, Bondevik was tied with George W. Bush through a secret and right-wing fundamentalist group.

It has also been reported that under the Bush administration, U.S. embassies have held prayer breakfast meetings as a way of buying access to U.S. officials, particularly those involved in important trade and defense issues. Such meetings have been reported taking place in U.S. embassies in Copenhagen; Oslo; Stockholm; Helsinki; Tallinn, Estonia; Vilnius, Lithuania; Bern, Switzerland; Luxembourg; The Hague; Rome; Brussels; Canberra; Port Louis, Mauritius; New Delhi; Mexico City; Belize; Warsaw; Vienna; Berlin; and Prague.

Fellowship members are found in governments throughout the world. This is not surprising considering the country-by-country files the Fellowship has on its worldwide activities. There are files on such hotspots as Afghanistan, Algeria, Cuba, Greece (with a special file on 1967 — the year of the nation’s military coup), Grenada, Guyana, Haiti, Indonesia, Israel, Korea, Kuwait, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Panama and the Canal Zone, Poland, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe. The files also cover the Fellowship’s activities in the more obscure Sao Tome and Principe, Upper Volta, Mali, and Aruba. One country that is missing from the Fellowship files is Chile, where on September 11, 1973, a bloody U.S.-inspired coup was launched against the socialist government. That coup resulted in the assassination of President Salvador Allende and years of suppression that saw the murder of thousands of opponents of fascism.

The National Prayer Breakfasts serve as important opportunities for foreign leaders to meet with American presidents. Leaders like former Kenyan President Daniel arap Moi, South African Zulu leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Hungarian President Arpad Goncz, Rwandan President Paul Kagame, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his wife Janet, King Taufa’ahau Tupuo IV of Tonga, the late Macedonian President (and Methodist minister) Boris Trajkovski, and leaders of Lithuania, Slovakia, Albania, and Romania have all sought the offices of Coe and the Fellowship to meet the President of the United States. The 2003 National Prayer Breakfast drew 3 heads of government, 21 Cabinet ministers, 11 Members of Parliament, 54 ambassadors, 56 U.S. senators, 245 U.S. House members, and a majority of Bush’s Cabinet secretaries.

In 2001, the unlikely joint appearance of Congo’s new President Joseph Kabila and his arch-enemy (but one-time mentor) Kagame at the 2001 Prayer Breakfast just after Bush’s inauguration raised eyebrows. Although they could not arrange a separate meeting with Bush, the two leaders did meet at the Cedars. What was unusual is that on January 16, 2001, just four days before Bush’s swearing in, Kabila’s father, the former Marxist rebel Laurent Kabila, was assassinated in the Congolese capital Kinshasa. Observers suspected Rwandan influence behind the assassination. The elder Kabila was battling Rwandan army units in the eastern Congo. Forty years earlier, almost to the hour, Congo’s first Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, was executed by U.S.-backed mercenaries working for the CIA. It was also four days before President Kennedy was sworn in as President.

Coe’s invitations to various leaders would pay off for George W. Bush. When he had to cobble together a “Coalition of the Willing” to support his invasion of Iraq, Bush was able to call on Fellowship leaders to sign on. It was through their Fellowship connections that the leaders of Albania, Palau, Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Uganda, Rwanda, Tonga, Romania, Lithuania, Solomon Islands, El Salvador, and other countries signed on to the “coalition.”

Senator Paul Sarbanes (D-MD) told the Los Angeles Times he did not think much of the Fellowship’s backdoor diplomacy, “Well, if I might observe, I’m not sure a head of state ought to be able to wander over here for the prayer breakfast and, in effect, compel the president of the United States to meet with him as a consequence . . . I mean, getting these meetings with the president is a process that’s usually very carefully vetted and worked up. Now sort of this back door has sort of evolved.”

Coe’s son David apparently did not think much of Bush’s war against Afghanistan. According to a Fellowship insider, the younger Coe spoke derisively of Bush’s Afghan campaign, asking rhetorically, “this is his vision?” David Coe indicated that Afghanistan was small potatoes and that if one wanted to see a real military campaign, the exploits of Genghis Khan and his invasion of Afghanistan should be studied.

The involvement of the Fellowship in central Africa’s woes may be deeper than in organizing meetings at prayer breakfasts. On April 6, 1994, the executive jet carrying the Hutu Presidents of Rwanda and Burundi from a peace summit in Tanzania with Kagame’s U.S.-backed guerrilla army in Uganda was shot down by Soviet made surface-to-air missiles captured by U.S. forces from Iraq in Desert Storm. All aboard the presidential aircraft were killed, including the French crew. That prompted a terrorism investigation by a special French anti-terrorism court. The author’s book, Genocide and Covert Operations in Africa 1993-1999 prompted an invitation by the chief judge to testify as an expert witness about the shooting down of the Rwandan plane.

It was during that testimony, the author was asked to investigate a secretive group made up of right-wing Republicans, current and former intelligence agents, U.S. oil interests and particularly associates of then Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. Evidence indicated that the group was involved in the terror attack on the Rwandan aircraft. One ad hoc name for the group uncovered by French intelligence and law enforcement was the “International Strategic and Tactical Organization” or “ISTO.” In fact, the description provided of the group by the French and the Fellowship match almost completely. The location of Armitage’s consulting firm, Armitage & Associates LC (AALC) in the Kellogg, Brown & Root/Halliburton building in Rosslyn (Arlington), Virginia, just around the corner from Advanced Energy Systems and a few miles from the Cedars pointed to the Fellowship as the secretive and dangerous group the French counter-terrorism investigators had discovered during their five year investigation. The results of the downing of the aircraft were staggering: 800,000 people died in Rwanda in Hutu-Tutsi ethnic warfare after the attack, tens of thousands died in similar ethnic strife in Burundi. But in Congo, some 4 million died after successive U.S.-supported Ugandan and Rwandan invasions of the country. The deaths resulted from warfare, famine, and disease brought about by the invasions. However, U.S. gem, mining, and oil companies made handsome profits in central Africa amidst the war and ethnic turmoil. Richard Sezibera, Rwanda’s ambassador to the United States and Kagame’s special envoy for Africa’s Great Lakes region, is a frequent guest at the Cedars. One interesting footnote – a senior U.S. government official ran into Doug Coe during the height of the inter-ethnic warfare in central Africa. Coe was in Burundi.

If Islamist fundamentalists can embrace terrorism, can fundamentalist “End Time” Christians? The FBI thinks so. Prior to 2000, the FBI, in a report titled “Project Megiddo” warned that Christian millenialist sects might use the beginning of the 21st century to pull of a grand terrorist act. The report stated, “The volatile mix of apocalyptic religious and [New World Order] conspiracy theories may produce violent acts aimed at precipitating the end of the world as prophesied in the Bible.” The name Meggido refers to a hill in northern Israel that was the site of a number of Biblical battles. “Armageddon” is Hebrew for Megiddo Hill. The FBI report warned that Christian millenialists might strike military installations and buildings in New York City such as the UN headquarters.

Stealing an Election for Christ

According to Time magazine, after Bush’s re-election, a group of evangelicals, not surprisingly known as “The Arlington Group,” wrote Karl Rove a letter signed by former presidential candidate Gary Bauer, Don Wildmon, Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, Paul Weyrich and Jerry Falwell demanding that Bush not waver and support a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. Rove is a key Fellowship asset in the White House. Often whistling “Onward Christian Soldiers” in the halls of the White House, Rove was credited with turning out millions of fundamentalist voters in the 2004 presidential election. Rove also managed to turn out hundreds, if not thousands, of evangelical and fundamentalist election “fixers,” who ensured that Democratic votes were suppressed, miscounted, undercounted, discounted, and not counted.

The Fellowship’s network of fundamentalists would never be as important as it was in the 2004 presidential election. With polls showing the race either tied or with Democratic candidate John Kerry ahead in key “swing” states, the alert to very zealous Christian activist went out across the nation.

The prime target was Ohio, where the Fellowship and its fundamentalist allies had built up a vast network of operatives in state and local government, including state agencies and county election boards. But more importantly, the Fellowship had links to the election machine companies that would be crucial to fixing election results in Ohio, Florida, New Mexico, Nevada, and other states – ensuring that Fellowship core member George W. Bush had four more years to put a practically indelible fundamentalist stamp on the United States. The money invested over the years by Lennon, Armington, Lindner, and other right-wing Ohio captains of industry in fundamentalist Christian causes and think tanks like the Ashbrook Center finally paid off. The Ohio Secretary of State, Kenneth Blackwell, who, copying Katherine Harris’s antics in Florida’s fraudulent 2000 election, used his government position and his co-chairmanship of Bush’s state election campaign to suppress the vote, especially in largely Democratic African-American districts.

Blackwell, who, as a former Deputy Undersecretary of HUD, was well versed in the art of distributing Bush political slush fund money and ensured that this was distributed far and wide in Ohio. This money is what Republican strategist Ed Rollins once called “walking around money” – money used by Republicans in New Jersey’s elections to pay off African American preachers to turn out the vote for their candidates. In Ohio, this tactic paid off in polling places in churches. Instead of turning out the vote, some local preachers, white and black, aided and abetted in suppressing the vote. One of Blackwell’s closest friends is fundamentalist preacher Ron Parsley of World Harvest Church. At the New Life fundamentalist church in the Gahanna District of Columbus, machines tallied 4258 votes for Bush when only a total of 628 votes were cast. Similar chicanery and racketeering occurred throughout Ohio and in other states during the vote tabulation and recounting processes. Two of the voting machine companies contracted by Ohio are headed by people who are conservative Republican partisans – Walden O’Dell, the CEO of Diebold of Columbus and the Rapp family that runs Triad Government Systems of Xenia, Ohio. Both brand of machines caused election problems in Ohio and elsewhere.

For example, several churches in Mahoning County, Ohio were the scenes of voting irregularities. They include:

Price Memorial Zion Church, Precinct 2E, Youngstown (voters were given confusing information and many elderly voters were told their polling place had changed, also voters voting for Kerry had their votes switched to Bush).

Spanish Evangelical Church, Precinct 2A, Youngstown, machines inoperative and switched votes from Kerry to Bush.

Elizabeth Baptist Church, Precinct 2C, Youngstown, one voting machine failed to record votes properly.

Tabernacle Baptist Church, Precinct 3C, Youngstown, one machine failed to record votes.

Martin Luther Lutheran Church, Precinct 5F, Youngstown, one touch screen machine broken the other erased votes.

St. John’s Greek Orthodox Church, Boardman, first two attempts to vote for Kerry go to Bush, third attempt records vote for Kerry. Poll worker brushes off complaints.

St. Nicholas Byzantine Church, Youngstown, machine records Kerry votes for Bush.

The skimming of votes in Mahoning County was replicated across the state. Ohio’s 20 electoral votes were delivered to George W. Bush just like manna from the heavens. For the fundamentalists who took part in the fraud, the “Christian” ends were definitely justified by the Machiavellian ways.

Waiting for God

Journalist, columnist, and television commentator Bill Moyers recently wrote that “for the first time in our history, ideology and theology hold a monopoly of power in Washington.” Ever since Abraham Vereide, a misguided immigrant to this country who brought very un-American ideas of Nazism and Fascism with him in his steamer trunk, the so-called “Christian” Right has long waited to take the biggest prize of all – the White House. Moyers correctly sees the Dominionists or “End Timers” as being behind the invasion of Iraq. He cites the Book of Revelation that states, “four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates will be released to slay the third part of man.” Such words may have their place in Sunday School and in church halls but using such thinking to launch wars of convenience or religious prophecy have no place in our federal and democratic republic. Moyers also rightly sees fundamentalist thought behind Bush’s “faith-based initiatives” and the rolling back of environmental regulations.

Hundreds of millions of people around the world no longer feel the United States is a country that can be trusted. They feel the people who run the affairs of state are out of control and dangerous. Considering the hold the Fellowship and their like-minded ilk have on the United States (and some of its allies) they are correct in their fears.

The political and religious dynasties who have embraced the Fellowship, Vereide, Fascism, Moon, Buchman, Moral Rearmament and all of their current and past manifestations, hatreds, and phobias show no sign of ceding power any time soon. There are many such father-son dynasties that hope to ensure a continuation of their shameful racketeering and political chicanery under the corporate “logo” of Jesus: George H. W. Bush to George W. Bush; Douglas Coe to David Coe; Billy Graham to Franklin Graham; Oral Roberts to Richard Roberts, Pat Robertson to Gordon Robertson; Jerry Falwell to Jonathan Falwell; Jeb Bush to George P. Bush; Robert Schuller Sr. to Robert Schuller, Jr., and Sun Myung Moon to at least nine sons (who are known about).

For them and their followers, they should keep in mind something Jesus said, “Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit.”

Amen.

The looting of Kenya under President Moi
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President Daniel arap Moi, seen here walking through a guard of honnor
The breathtaking extent of corruption perpetrated by the family of the former Kenyan leader Daniel Arap Moi is revealed in a secret report which lays bare a web of shell companies, secret trusts and frontmen used to steal over two billion dollars worth of state money.
The suppressed U.K auditor’s report details how Kenyan state finances were laundered across the world to buy properties and companies in London, New York and South Africa and even a 10,000 hectare ranch in Australia.
The countries involved in the corrupt dealings include Australia, Belgium, Brunei, Canada, Finland, Germany, Grand Cayman, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jersey, Liechtenstein, Liberia, Luxembourg, Malawi, Namibia, the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, Russia, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Switzerland, the UAE, Uganda, the United Kingdom, the United States and Zaire.
The intricately detailed report, commissioned by President Kibaki after his 2002 election victory but later suppressed, forensically investigates corrupt transactions and holdings by several powerful members of the Kenyan elite.
The sums are comparable in magnitude to the looting of infamous kleptocrats such as Mobutu (Zaire), Marcos (Philippines), Abacha (Nigeria), Suharto (Indonesia) and Fujimori (Peru). The leaked material is extremely politically sensitive. Ex-President Moi has become a key player in political life in Kenya, and is now an essential pillar in President Kibaki’s campaign for re-election in December 2007.

Leak
KTM report – on-line edition, unproofed
KTM report.pdf (file info page) – authoritative original, 4Mb of scanned printed pages
Verification status
Verified
Media contacts
See Media Kit
Additional media contacts
Transparency International, Mars Group Kenya and http://www.kroll.com/ (Kroll won’t comment on the record)
Date
August 30, 2007 (last updated September 9, 2007)
By
Wikileaks’ staff

Contents
[hide]

* 1 Introduction
* 2 About the report
* 3 The leaked report’s author: Kroll Associates UK Limited
o 3.1 Andrew Marshal
* 4 Secondary media based on the leak and this analysis
o 4.1 Video
o 4.2 Print
o 4.3 See also
* 5 Joshua Kulei
o 5.1 Ownership of businesses
o 5.2 Sits on the Board of Governors for the following schools and universities
o 5.3 Trustee of
o 5.4 Management Board member in
o 5.5 Properties
+ 5.5.1 In the UK
+ 5.5.2 In Kenya:
o 5.6 Bank Balances (page 26)
o 5.7 Business Associates
* 6 Gideon Moi
o 6.1 Ownership of businesses
o 6.2 Properties
+ 6.2.1 In the UK
o 6.3 Finance
+ 6.3.1 Kenya
+ 6.3.2 Business Associates
* 7 Nicholas Biwott
o 7.1 Ownership of Businesses
o 7.2 Properties
o 7.3 Finance
+ 7.3.1 Kenya
+ 7.3.2 Switzerland
+ 7.3.3 Belgium
+ 7.3.4 Business Associates
* 8 Philip Moi
o 8.1 Business links
o 8.2 Finance
+ 8.2.1 Barclays Bank (page 57)
+ 8.2.2 Credit Suisse Zurich, Switzerland. (page 57)
+ 8.2.3 Sultanate of Brunei (page 57)
o 8.3 Business Associates
* 9 KTM report country index
o 9.1 Australia
o 9.2 Belgium
o 9.3 Brunei
o 9.4 Canada
o 9.5 Dubai
o 9.6 Finland
o 9.7 Germany
o 9.8 Grand Cayman
o 9.9 Israel
o 9.10 Italy
o 9.11 Japan
o 9.12 Jersey
o 9.13 Leichtenstein
o 9.14 Liberia
o 9.15 Luxembourg
o 9.16 Malawi
o 9.17 Namibia
o 9.18 Netherlands
o 9.19 Puerto Rico
o 9.20 Russia
o 9.21 Somalia
o 9.22 South Africa
o 9.23 Sudan
o 9.24 Switzerland
o 9.25 Uganda
o 9.26 United Kingdom
o 9.27 United States
o 9.28 Zaire
* 10 Index of names, company names and properties
* 11 Notes & References

Introduction
In December 2002, the 24 year rule of Kenya’s President Daniel Arap Moi was ended by the election victory of Mwai Kibaki. Elected on an anti-corruption platform, it was hoped that President Kibaki would end grand corruption in Kenya. In January 2003 Kibaki appointed John Githongo, formerly of Transparency International, as his personal advisor on Anti Corruption and Good Governance.[1] One of the first anti-corruption activities of Mr. Githongo on behalf of President Kibaki was to engage Kroll & Associates (UK), a private investigation and security firm, to trace and report on what was said by Transparency International to be over 3 billion US Dollars stashed abroad, by the former President Moi and his closest associates.[2]
Mwai Kibaki being sworn in as President of Kenya after his election on an anti-corruption ticket in December 2002; “Corruption will now cease to be a way of life in Kenya. I am calling upon all of you Kenyans to help the government fight corruption, as our first priority”. The bible’s price tag is visible.[3].
Close to half of Kenya’s 35 million citizens live under the UN’s poverty level of 1 US dollar a day. If the restitution programme started in 2003 had been completed it would have been possible to get justice for the tens of millions of Kenyans who live in abject poverty – as the political elite live as Dollar Millionaires on the proceeds of corruption.
The leaked document, dated April 2004, is clearly self explanatory – being one of the preliminary reports received by the Government of Kenya (described in the report as the “client”). The persons stated as “Targets” are President Moi’s closest associates and relatives.
Contemporaneous media coverage of the time reveals a determination by the Kibaki government to trace and seize the foreign assets of Moi’s associates.[4] However at some point in May 2004, the Kibaki government itself suffered a credibility blow when several of the President’s closest advisors were implicated in a 777 million US Dollar corruption scandal known as the Anglo Leasing scandal. The fallout of this scandal resulted in the gradual sidelining and eventual exile in the UK (in January 2005) of John Githongo after threats to his life.[5] The anti-corruption czar had lost the support of the Kenyan President. It was at this point that the Government dropped its international asset tracing and recovery efforts. It is believed it was at this point that the Kroll Report on Moi and his associates was suppressed.
On August 28th 2007, about 100 days before the forthcoming Presidential election, President Kibaki’s re-election campaign received the formal endorsement of his predecessor, Daniel Moi.[6] Ex-President Moi’s influence over Kibaki’s regime is obvious and also evidenced by his recent appointment as a Personal Peace Envoy of Kibaki to the Sudan.[7]
None of the assets traced and identified by Kroll have been impounded and Moi and his associates are experiencing a resurgence in political clout. Among these assets are a bank in Belgium, hotels and residences in the USA, UK, South Africa, Namibia and as far away as Australia, a 10% shareholding in Kenya’s most successful telecommunications company (a joint venture with Vodafone PLC of the UK) and massive real estate and agricultural investments.
The leak which emanated from within high levels of the Kenyan Government is motivated by the desire to demonstrate that President Kibaki has clear-cut evidence of his predecessor’s corruption and complicity in corruption, and has chosen to suppress the evidence and worse still has gone into a political and economic alliance with the Moi group.
A second motivation is the sheer scale of the theft of public funds by Moi and his associates. The figures in the report run into (if added up) the billions of US Dollars – comparable in magnitude to the looting of other infamous kleptocrats such as Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, Sani Abacha of Nigeria, Suharto of Indonesia and Alberto Fujimori of Peru.
The leaked material is extremely politically sensitive. Ex-President Moi, a corrupt, brutal, discredited former dictator, has somehow again become a key player in political life in Kenya – so much, that he is now an essential pillar in current President Kibaki’s re-election campaign. His massive financial resources are expected to be used to buy Kibaki popular support particularly in the populous Rift Valley region, which voted almost to the man against Kibaki in the last election, and in November 2005 during a constitutional referendum. The leaker thinks the re-emergence of President Moi is scandalous and must be stopped.
The leak will certainly interest the Kenyan media, for whom this report represents a grail of sorts. Kenya’s large international press corps will also be an interested audience. With a Presidential election only a few months away, the report comes to light at a critical time.

About the report
The leaked report is 106 pages long and contains several sections: executive summary (1-10), source enquiries (11-54), business associates and front men (55-76), and appendix (77-106).[8] The executive summary outlines the most suspicious financial transactions, properties and business links discovered in its investigation. A series of additional enquiries is proposed. The following sections proceed in intricate detail, investigating the background, ‘modus operandi’, business links, financial transactions, business associates, and property holdings, all around the world, of several powerful members of Kenyan society linked to Daniel arap Moi.
The report is highly verifiable. Kroll UK, Transparency International, John Githongo, and http://www.marskenya.org, a Kenyan website that documents grand corruption incidents, are suggested for full or partial corroboration and the document appears consistent with the public record.

The leaked report’s author: Kroll Associates UK Limited
Kroll Associates UK Limited is a limited liability company incorporated in England (registered number 2020412) whose registered office is at 10 Fleet Place, London, United Kingdom EC4M 7RB. Its father company Kroll Inc., headquartered in New York, US is a private investigation and security consulting firm founded by Jules B. Kroll in 1972. It provides corporate risk consulting services including financial advisory and investigations, identity fraud solutions, background screening, forensic accounting, bodyguard services, corporate restructuring, and security technology services. The company is now a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies who aquired it in July 2004.
The US government and the weapons industry is a major permanent contractor of Kroll Inc.[9].
Kroll Inc. was also responsible for security of the World Trade Center site until it was destroyed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
In October 2004, the Brazil offices of Kroll Inc. were raided by the police because of alleged spying activities on the government. The company was originally reported to have been hired by the Brazilian investment firm Opportunity to investigate Telecom Italia, with whom it has been battling to gain control of Brazil Telecom, one of Brazil’s largest telephone companies. Other notable cases include the corporate restructuring of Enron after its 2001 accounting scandal, the law enforcement monitoring of Los Angeles Police Department in a US federal consent decree mandating major reforms designed to end corruption and abuse.
Kroll UK has also investigated other Kenyan corruption scandals, such as the so-called Anglo-Leasing Scandal.[10]
Andrew Marshal
Andrew R. Marshall is chief risk officer for Business Intelligence and Investigations. He joined Kroll in 2003 and has also been head of the Emerging Markets practice in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Mr. Marshall spent 15 years in international journalism. He was foreign editor, Washington Bureau chief and Brussels Bureau chief for The Independent newspaper between 1990 and 2000. He also worked on the foreign staff of the Financial Times and for Oxford Analytica.
He is the author, with Mathew Horsman, of After the Nation-State (HarperCollins, 1994) and has contributed to other books. He has widespread broadcasting and radio experience. [11]
His contact details are: +44 207 029 5162, amarshall@kroll.com
Secondary media based on the leak and this analysis

Mars Group Kenya, a Kenyan anti-corruption site, maintains a comprehensive page about the scandal.

* http://www.marsgroupkenya.org/pages/stories/looting_Kenya/index.php

The following lists are in reverse-chronological order (approximate):
Video

Print
(Use username cypherpunks password cypherpunks for nationmedia.com)

* The East African: Steal from us, we’ll pray over you
* Daily Nation, Nairobi: Why new corruption Bill cannot stop the looting of public coffers
* AllAfrica / Daily Nation, Nairobi: AG: I have not seen Kroll graft report
* Adfero, London
* Le Mali
* Sunday Times, South Africa
* Angola Press
* Guardian (Comment Is Free)
* Legalbrief, Africa
* Belfast Telegraph
* All Africa / East African Standard, Nairobi
* All Africa / The Nation, Nairobi
* Daily Telegraph, London; story #2
* Sunday Nation, Nairobi
* Sunday Standard, Nairobi
* Slashdot
* International Herald Tribune
* Kenya Broadcasting Corporation
* MWC News, Vancouver
* Reuters; story #2
* The Independent, London
* International Herald Tribute / AP
* The Telegraph, UK
* Daily Nation, Nairobi; story #1
* Daily Nation, Nairobi; story #2
* Daily Nation, Nairobi story #3
* Guardian Unlimited
* Forbes / Associated Press
* Financial Times
* Reuters; story #1
* BBC News
* AFP
* UPI
* Sydney Morning Herald / Guardian, London
* Brisbane Times / Guardian
* All Africa / African Catholic Information Service, Nairobi
* All Africa / The Nation, Nairobi
* SW Radio Africa, Zimbabwe
* The Times Online, London
* good Mental Acrobatics
* Mashasa, Africa; forum #2
* Mashada, Africa; forum #1
* The Guardian, London; story #1

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